Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:18:53 +0100 (MET) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: fdutils. |
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Without a floppy-based rescue system, you have to use bootable CDROM, > usually supplied by a vendor, without the tools to truly rescue a > system. You can only re-install. For instance some vendors don't > provide a SCSI-tape module so you can't recover from a SCSI tape.
You can have a Zip based rescue system, or an LZ-120 one, or an MO one (if you can afford a drive), etc... What's the difference?
> It would be a disaster, hardly harmless. Have you a clue how much > work gets done off-site (perhaps at home), using "sneaker-net" > (floppies)? Engineers who have to work for a living take work home > every night. They don't have to take a whole source-code tree because > they have already duplicated their work environment via CDROM or tape. > They take home, work on, and return, current source-code or > documentation on floppies.
If they used Zip, LS-120, or anything, what would would be the difference? I can't see any.
-- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
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