Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 21:54:00 -0600 From: William Grim <wgrim@siue.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <4000C8D8.4080204@siue.edu> In-Reply-To: <200401101945.27234.wes@softweyr.com> References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20040110013313.Q51801@ganymede.hub.org> <200401101945.27234.wes@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: >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. > > > Yes, and what about my P3-500 server that has no CD drive in it? I hardly think I'm going to purchase a CD drive just for that server. If there ever comes a time when I have to decide between purchasing a CD drive to reinstall a broken installation of FBSD that I have deemed unrecoverable or using linux (where I can use floppies all day and night), I'll be installing linux. However, on this note, I would like to say I'd like to help out with a floppy project, but I would not want to be "floppy maintainer." At least, not until I knew a lot more about how things worked, and even then, I'm not sure, because of time and lack of several test systems. Later! -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: wgrim@siue.edu
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