Re: [foxboro] Software Install failure

  • From: "Lowell, Timothy" <Timothy.Lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:56:19 -0500

We just bought some Dell T3500 P92's, and they don't have internal floppy 
drives.  So how does Invensys tackle this thorny issue?  You guessed it: USB 
floppy drives!  Just like the AW51F & G boxes.  In 1998 or so, maybe that was 
acceptable, but not 2010.  Well, I think this dead horse has been sufficiently 
beaten.

Tim

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Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [foxboro] Software Install failure

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Corey R Clingo <corey.clingo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Rather then writing to some specific removeable medium, and using it as a
> raw device, why not just generate a tar file?  You could then copy that to
> any medium you wanted -- USB stick, CD/DVD, even floppy if you are feeling
> nostalgic.  The medium would not have to be dedicated, "wiped clean", or
> anything like that.  The file could also be transferred over the network
> if desired.   Other archive formats like .ZIP would work as well, though
> compression probably is not needed for committals.
>
> While we are at it, make the quick fixes this way, too. :)

Amen, Brother Corey, amen!

As many of you find out, I learned the hard way that when the floppy drive is 
used only once in a blue moon, it's so darned unreliable. And there' nothing 
more frustrating than trying to get a balky floppy drive to cooperate.

Duc
 
 
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