Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:34:38 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040110013313.Q51801@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Michel TALON wrote: > > And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even > > if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to > > install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the > > LAN from a local FTP mirror, which is as fast as a CD drive anyway. > > Sincerely FreeBSD developers have more important tasks than spending > hours to fit an installable system on floppies. When FreeBSD used > one floppy, it was tolerable to do floppy installs. With 2 or 3 floppies > it is awfully slow, i have done once and will never do it again. I still use floppies to do my installs, and find getting the base system up over FTP to generally take <30minutes *shrug* Faster, IMHO, then downloading the ISO and burning it to a CD .. ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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