From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 19:45:31 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 D41B016A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:45:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.omnis.com (smtp.omnis.com [216.239.128.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A904543D31 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:45:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-91-236-204.san.rr.com [66.91.236.204]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D88B188C433; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:45:27 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: "Marc G. Fournier" , Michel TALON Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:45:27 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20040110013313.Q51801@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20040110013313.Q51801@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401101945.27234.wes@softweyr.com> 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: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 03:45:31 -0000 On Friday 09 January 2004 09:34 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Michel TALON wrote: > > > > 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 .. Faster than loading a single ISO image with only the boot information and sysinstall and booting from that, rather than 3 (or 4 or 5) floppies? A CD-R is cheaper, faster, more reliable, and you don't have to keep feeding them into the machine. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com