On 10/25/2007 Zack Widup wrote:
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> By the way, we bought an Inspiron at work a few years ago. I forget the
> model but it had a cartridge slot for either a CD drive or floppy drive.
> You couldn't use both at once. It made for a real pain in the tuchis to
> try to install an operating system on it on an un-partitioned,
> unformatted hard drive.
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They are called "drive bays" - one huge advantage of more modern machines and
OSes - ones that can boot off of CD/DVD - you don't need floppies to install
the OS - put the DVD in the drive, and tell it to boot from the drive
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