Firefox Floppy Disks


	Firefox Floppy Disks

fisaxij

12-18-2007 4:47 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a0cb3c8d-2442-4ba4-a5c2-3bbeb2bf3748/2BCA6E2D-D2C9-4F71-A2EC-5375C0EF32C8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915" href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spreadfirefox.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915"><P>OK, so floppy disks are obsolete. These days USB flash drives can be used even on <A rel="nofollow" href="http://toastytech.com/files/cruzerwin95.html" linkindex="103">95, NT 4, and DOS</A>, but there is nothing quite like having software physically at your fingertips. To that end I printed up some 3.5" floppy disk labels and created a setup self extractor using Winzip to span the install file across the disks. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915"><P align="baseline">It took only 5 1.44 meg floppy disks! Compared to some software that I have had to install from dozens of floppy disks, Firefox is downright tiny. I probably could have gotten it down to 4 disks if I had formatted them using DMF (1.6 megs). </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spreadfirefox.com/img/5033C741-667A-49C4-A151-C8BBF25B263B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915"><P>Awesome,  but what if I encounter a PC/AT with only a 5.25" 1.2 meg drive?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spreadfirefox.com/img/CAD2C0A2-D108-45B9-A314-540F1CD87FF0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915"><P>Well, for some sick reason I actually have a 5.25" 1.2 meg drive in my machine so I used the same self extracting setup on these disks. These disks now actually have Firefox on them! </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915"><P align="baseline">Could I get any more sick?<BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spreadfirefox.com/img/6B8377C9-12A2-486F-B96C-49F690C5BADB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28915"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spreadfirefox.com/img/11B58AA5-39F5-49E6-B58C-4EF49709335A" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2BCA6E2D-D2C9-4F71-A2EC-5375C0EF32C8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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