From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 9 15:10:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90C037B8CE for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:10:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [209.96.235.153] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id AFB34393011C; Sun, 09 Apr 2000 18:09:55 -0400 Received: from picusnet.com (localhost.picusnet.com [127.0.0.1]) by picusnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00593; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 18:03:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Message-ID: <38F0FE3E.D8002008@picusnet.com> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 18:03:42 -0400 From: William Freeman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Pinkham Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unix References: <385240411.955317512089.JavaMail.root@web37.pub01> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------DE9E1D0CE32AA9E8C1011D12" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------DE9E1D0CE32AA9E8C1011D12 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think they don't bother because no one in their right mind would bother to install a Unix system from floppy disks anyway. it'd take for ever, especialy if you plan in installing extra stuff from packages. Andrew Pinkham wrote: > I have one question > why the hell do you have to make it so hard to install unix from floopy > all of it makes absolutly no sense. > you don't even say which files you are suppose to copy to disk, and you > don't even say where to get them. > > ______________________________________________ > FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com > Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- William D. Freeman (wdf@picusnet.com) http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GU d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W+ N o-- K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE++ Y-- PGP-- t++ 5-- X+++ R tv- b+ DI++++ D--- G- e- h! r-- !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --------------DE9E1D0CE32AA9E8C1011D12 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think they don't bother because no one in their right mind would bother to install a Unix system from floppy disks anyway.  it'd take for ever, especialy if you plan in installing extra stuff from packages.
 
 

Andrew Pinkham wrote:

I have one question
why the hell do you have to make it so hard to install unix from floopy
all of it makes absolutly no sense.
you don't even say which files you are suppose to copy to disk, and you
don't even say where to get them.

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