From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 16 13:05:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9980410656AB for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:05:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2B08FC13 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:05:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5395A6D41B; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2427A8450B; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:05:35 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Bruce Cran References: <159670.52451.qm@web113214.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <86lji6pzk3.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20091116125625.000058a7@unknown> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:05:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20091116125625.000058a7@unknown> (Bruce Cran's message of "Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:56:25 +0000") Message-ID: <867htqoc0w.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Trever , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bad source in the distro iso's X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:05:36 -0000 Bruce Cran writes: > See > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-October/052241.html > - apparently people are still wanting to install from floppies. The mind boggles. If you can't boot from CD-ROM, use a USB stick. If you can't boot from a USB stick, use PXE. If your NIC doesn't do PXE, you can get one that does for $20. If that is not an option either, move the disk to another machine, install, and move it back. If you really want to install 7.2 from floppies, you will need 76 disks just to get a bootable system. For 8.0, you will need 84. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no