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Date:      Sun, 5 Jul 1998 12:58:05 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        bj <bj@bj.mv.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: floppy disks
Message-ID:  <19980705125805.K358@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807050304.XAA11312@mercury.mv.net>; from bj on Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 11:04:17PM -0400
References:  <199807050304.XAA11312@mercury.mv.net>

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On Saturday,  4 July 1998 at 23:04:17 -0400, bj wrote:
> Hi , i was wondering if i could purchase FreeBSD on a 1.44 floppy? thanks

Well, it's not available that way, but I suppose I could make you a
set.  Let's see,

Filesystem  1024-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/cd0a        647556   647556        0   100%    /cdrom/1
/dev/cd1a        600578   600578        0   100%    /cdrom/2
/dev/cd3a        641716   641716        0   100%    /cdrom/4
/dev/cd2a        653044   653044        0   100%    /cdrom/3

That's 2542894 kB, or 1765 floppies.  Just for you, I'll do them for
$1 each.

Of course, there are no guarantees that all the floppies will be
readable.  In fact, there's a good chance that 10 or so won't be.  And
for the same price, I could give you 10 sets of CDs *and* 10 CD ROM
drives.

That's why FreeBSD isn't available on floppy.

Greg
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