From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 30 20:30:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (mailhop1-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17AE37B94B for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:30:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dheller1@rochester.rr.com) Received: from mailout1.nyroc.rr.com ([24.92.226.146]) by mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:26:49 -0400 Received: from rochester.rr.com ([24.24.34.106]) by mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:29:49 -0400 Message-ID: <390CFA1B.5DD9979F@rochester.rr.com> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:29:31 -0400 From: David Heller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can get this? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Danny wrote: > > > You can but I believe it require 200 FDs > > No...you just need a couple...1 for kern.flp, 1 for mfsroot.flp and at > least one more. You copy on the appropriate files and feed it to the > installer - once the installer is finsished and askss for the next one you > wipe the disk and put the next lot of files on...its slow though...not too > bad if you have a few disks and 2 people as you can keep the installer fed > at all times. > > Andrew > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Yes but can the floppy itself stand 100 or so read/write cycles let alone the floppy drive ?? I think after feeding your machine 10 or so floppies you will be ready to pull some hair out or burn some midnite oil !!! Good Luck ! Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message