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Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)



Lisi Reisz wrote:
>On Thursday 23 March 2017 16:48:56 Catherine Gramze wrote:
>>
>> When you burn the netinst iso to a dvd, because you can't buy blank cds
>> anymore in any local stores, you have a netinst dvd. I can't remember the
>> last time I saw a cd in the wild.
>
>No, you do not.  You have a net install cd image burnt onto a DVD because you 
>didn't /couldn't be bothered to look for CDs.
>
>How about:
>https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_8?url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&field-keywords=blank+cd+discs&sprefix=blank+CD%2Caps%2C178&crid=29MZRSVI13I1H
>Or:
>https://www.tesco.com/direct/search-results/results.page?catId=4294967294&searchquery=blank+CD&SrchId=4294967294
>Or:
>https://www.wilko.com/search?q=blank+CD
>
>I assure you that Wilko is very wild!!  And for me, very local.

It depends on where you are, and what's convenient. Hell, I've written
CDs to DVD-R media more than once in recent years as it's been
easiest. Blank DVD media can often be cheaper these days, too.

>Just occasionally, Catherine, try to admit that you may not know everything.  
>In particular, that Steve knows more than you do.

Please calm down, why the aggression? :-(

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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