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Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> writes:

> On Wed, 21 May 2003, Christoffer Pio wrote:
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> ...
>> from floppies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp), I cannot imagine
>> how it could make a difference installing from a CDROM.
>
>   Well, way more drivers can fit on the CDROM for one.
>
>   However, I don't know why anyone would install from floppies, if you
> have a CD-ROM.  Floppies are slow and hold a tiny amount of data.

Because you have a local mirror of FreeBSD and all you need is the two
boot floppies and a copy of your install.cfg to do a full automated
install.  Many of our systems don't have CD-ROM drives, but they all
have floppies.  Ideally I'd be doing entirely net-based installs, but
the Ethernet cards we have don't do netboot.  :(

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