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| Thread ID: 46208 | 2004-06-16 10:31:00 | Where can I buy lots of cheap 3.5" Floppy Disks? | Growly (6) | Press F1 |
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| 245225 | 2004-06-17 09:04:00 | Oh my gosh dumdum ... I asked where you could buy floppies, and you think im trying to get attention. Next time, do me a favour and don't bother replying - you're way off track. To all those who really need to know and wont answer my question I need them because i want to a basic non -gui install of debian (which comes on floppies). Now can someone please tell me where to get floppy disks from? Or am i going to have to sit and read through 80 more people criticising me... |
Growly (6) | ||
| 245226 | 2004-06-17 10:44:00 | That quantity at that price = auction I saw a guy buy a 24 large cartons (big cartons !) of 5.25" floppies for $2 all up at an asset auction in Hamilton in 2002. Would have contained thousands of floppies. Much debate and hilarity at the time as to what the heck he was going to do with them. Should be possible to get used or new 3.5 to fit your budget at an auction if your patient. But agree with post above that late model floppies are atrocious unless you buy premium brands. |
the highlander (245) | ||
| 245227 | 2004-06-17 11:02:00 | Hmmm, all I can find are premium brands, for premium $$$$.... | Growly (6) | ||
| 245228 | 2004-06-17 20:48:00 | A few years back I saw places such as Warehouse Stationary and others sell jumbo-packs of 25 floppy disks reasonably cheaply, and of a generic brand. | somebody (208) | ||
| 245229 | 2004-06-17 21:21:00 | Debian Installation Page (www.aboutdebian.com) or give Linux From Scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org) a try if you want to start fresh. Cheers Murrray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 245230 | 2004-06-18 02:41:00 | I'm pretty sure Warehouse Stationery still have the packs of 25. The last box of 10 I bought from them was $5 or $6. The 25s are cheaper per disk. But it is a pain using floppies for installation. It was OK for DOS (1-3 floppies). I've done OS/2 with 22 floppies. Turbo Pascal is 11 floppies. More is worse. When you have to write the floppies as well, it's ridiculous. You don't need to use floppies for a "non-GUI" installation. You use a CD and select the "text" mode. The medium is irrelevant. If you don't want a CD drive, use FTP or NFS through an Ethernet link with a server which has a CD. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 245231 | 2004-06-18 05:05:00 | What a pain! Also the probability of getting a significant number of duds in 100 (sector 0 not found) is very high, even with new unopened packs of floppies that say Lifetime Warranty etc on the packet. You would need to format each one to make sure. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 245232 | 2004-06-18 05:50:00 | Not only has the quality of floppy disks dropped, but the quality of floppy disk drives. I had to replace my FDD last year because it stopped working. The fact is that floppy disks are receding, and since there is not much point in them these days, they produce the components with a lower quality. I guess, however, it also fits in with what is happening with whiteware and electronics - they purposely build in components that will only last for five or ten years, thereby forcing you to upgrade. This is unlike the "olden days" ;) when a fridge would last throughout your lifetime. However, all that said, I still use floppy disks sometimes, mainly for Partition Magic and Windows 9x rescue disks. |
agent (30) | ||
| 245233 | 2004-06-18 05:55:00 | > > ... I need lots of them. Growly, can you be more specific, one container-load or half a container-load, or just 100 or them? I'm sure, it can be arranged if .... Cheers |
bk T (215) | ||
| 245234 | 2004-06-19 07:20:00 | I can be as specific as 'lots' is . I need a good hundred . . . My dad used to bring hundreds home - no longer necessary at his office . I just remember you could install from a CD, my bad . . . . but it was kinda because I wanted to get really really basic . Thanks everyone though . . . |
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