Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:44:34 -0800 (PST) From: James Phillips <anti_spam256@yahoo.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd install from floppy Message-ID: <799211.14657.qm@web65514.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20100306120022.DB2A2106568B@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:54:38 +0000 > From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> > Subject: Re: freebsd install from floppy > To: perryh@pluto.rain.com > Cc: questions@freebsd.org, > plukawski@gmail.com > Message-ID: <4B92265E.5030109@infracaninophile.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DUTF-8 >=20 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > On 06/03/2010 09:26:22, perryh@pluto.rain.com > wrote: > > I seem to remember something about the floppy images > being dropped > > because few current (or even recent) systems have a > floppy drive at > > all, much less a bootable one. >=20 > Yeah, but the floppy disk drive was already obsolete 10 > years ago.=A0 It's > just taken this long for it to fall down dead.=A0 Good > riddance to it. > Why would anyone want an unreliable, slow and tiny capacity > device when > you can get GiB capacity USB sticks everywhere nowadays? >=20 Correction: Apple stopped selling computers with floppy drives about 10 yea= rs ago. The floppy drive is not obsolete because there is still no viable r= eplacement that has the same (or better) functionality. The problem with USB sticks is that they don't have user-accessible write-p= rotect tabs. If you plug a USB stick into a compromised system, it is "tain= ted." Secure Digital Cards have a write-protect tab, but "Secure" means "secure a= gainst copying" (Copy Protection for Recordable Media), making them inappro= priate for "known good" filesystem images. I have started using CD-ROM booting to install FreeBSD. The problem with CD= -R images is that any "tweaks" to the disk image require burning a new disk= . Regards, James Phillips Recent Slashdot exchange about exactly this issue: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3D1565678&cid=3D31302916 =0A=0A=0A ____________________________________________________________= ______=0AMake your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet= Explorer=AE 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloa= ds.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/
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