From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 27 20:58:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (apana.internode.on.net [150.101.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D46637B71D for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (bra@dialup-9.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.138]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21647; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:28:41 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "Doug Young" , "newbies" Subject: Re: install from floppy Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:23:02 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain References: <0102261151010E.00803@PhD_1.testname.com.au> <02b201c09fa3$3b39c020$847e03cb@apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <02b201c09fa3$3b39c020$847e03cb@apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01022815263608.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Doug Young wrote: > Well yes installing from floppies IS troublesome at times, but I had to do > it with a bunch of prehistoric 386 Wangs that wouldn't look at a CD-ROM. > > Brian is totally correct when he says floppies cark it at a critical moment, > however if you have (like I did at the time) such a pile of systemslying > around that a kangaroo dog couldn't jump over its not particularly difficult > to kick one into life to create replacement bin floppies on the fly :) Actually Doug, it was because I couldn't do what you say you did (make a replacement floppy and offer it to the install program and continue) that made me so cross. I didn't think "try again" should mean "start over from the beginning"! -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message