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From: Jim Henderson
Date: 9 Oct 2011 13:33:03
Message: <4e91dacf$1@news.povray.org>

On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:15:12 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 10/8/2011 18:08, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Then we agree there.
> 
> I think we agree on this whole message. Nuff said. :-)

Right. :)

>> Sure.  But there are ways of dealing with that, too.  Most computers
>> have USB ports these days, so a USB flash drive can be used (in fact, I
>> did my upgrade from oS 11.4 to 12.1 beta 1 using a flash drive.)
> 
> Sure. But you're not going to upgrade a proprietary for-fee OS like
> Windows from a flash drive. I'm not saying Linux is bad or anything. I'm
> just pointing out *why* it is different, which sadly many people fail
> (or refuse) to notice.

Windows doesn't really seem to have a mechanism for doing an upgrade from 
a flash drive, but yes, usually people are going to do it online.

Jim

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