• @21Cabbage
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    1010 months ago

    Why did I have to burn multiple install CDs before finally getting one to work back in 2013?

    • @Gimpydude
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      610 months ago

      For the same reason I had to buy a stack of floppies to install it in the 90’s

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        I think you have a little bit of solder flux stuck in your gray beard on the left side… No, other left.

      • @21Cabbage
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        210 months ago

        Weren’t floppy’s relatively rewritable? Why did you have to buy multiple instead of simply trying multiple times?

        • @Gimpydude
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          110 months ago

          Floppies were very rewritable, but the distro wouldn’t fit on a single one.

          • @21Cabbage
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            110 months ago

            See but I’m talking about burning an install CD for Puppy and having it just straight not work and the solution being “just burn another one” like CDs were cheap for a 13 year old.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      510 months ago

      Because not all distros work with their respective boot floppies. I gather you finally realized that in 2013.