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Date:      Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:25:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Matthew Fuller <fullermd@mortis.futuresouth.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: floppies again
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322232443.12642J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95LJ1.1b3.980320105613.2787A-100000@mortis>

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On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Matthew Fuller wrote:

> Do we even still support doing floppy installations with 1.2M floppies?

Yes.

> If not, is there really a reason to keep split'ing the dists into 235k
> files?

yes -- it saves download times if the transfer fails and you're using a
reget-dumb ftp client.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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