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JEEBUS people, it was a troll by IT. Although I have to agree a true IT nerd should have gotten it right.
 
Ahhh but how many 5 1/4" floppies? Or even 10" ones?

Forget about the fact that a lot of individual files would even fit on one disk. So you'd need to account for whatever software needed to break up the files and out them back together.
 
I remember installing Windows OS from floppy disks... :laughing

Hell I remember screwing around with linux builds where all installation and partition was done manually. I did not like it. :x :laughing
 
wannabe said:
Dammit. My personality couldn't let it go. I had to look it up and do the math:

Windows 7 (64) = 3.06 gigs = 3,060 megs
Floppy = 1.44 megs

So, assuming that you could write all 1.44 megs onto one disk (not likely), then the fewest number of disks required is 2,125 disks.
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If you wanted to be really anal, shouldn't there be 1024 megs per gig?
 
UDRider said:
I remember installing Windows OS from floppy disks... :laughing

Hell I remember screwing around with linux builds where all installation and partition was done manually. I did not like it. :x :laughing
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I still do this RHEL5 based operating systems. By default, Anaconda doesn't properly align the filesystem to the disk geometry. This basically doubles the numer of reads required for a block on a RAID array, and kills non-sequential read performance.

The fix is to partition manually. Since I do automated installs, I had to run the calculations for the correct start and end points for each partition, and code the correct parted commands into the pre installation macro for my Kickstart configurations.

RHEL6 fixes the issue.
 
I remember

UDRider said:
I remember installing Windows OS from floppy disks... :laughing
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I bought a Zenith Z-159 PC with a 20 MB hard drive from the U of M back in 1987. It came with a Windows package too that you had to install yourself. I didn't do it right away as my flight simulator and Lotus 1-2-3 had precedence along with my ability to write ForTran on it. I later installed it, thought it was complete crap and the only thing I ever used it for was a game called "Reversi", if I remember correctly. It was 5.25" glory over seven installation disks on my green LED monitor (Not a fan of amber- the monitor, not the co-ed. BIG fan of Amber the co-ed). Are those 5.25" discs worth any money to anyone today? Is there a Honus Wagner of floppy discs? A Wayne Gretzky rookie card? A Jason Lawrence SX/MX card (which I actually DO have)?
 
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