From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 21:38:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E01116A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:38:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FF743D54 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4077D379CD; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:34:38 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D65537992; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:34:38 -0400 (AST) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:34:38 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Michel TALON In-Reply-To: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: <20040110013313.Q51801@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 05:38:02 -0000 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