Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:34:04 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Trever <anti_spamsys@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bad source in the distro iso's Message-ID: <4B018D0C.8060601@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <867htqoc0w.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <159670.52451.qm@web113214.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <86lji6pzk3.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20091116125625.000058a7@unknown> <867htqoc0w.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> 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 I think the easiest answer would be: install 6.x or something, and upgrade.
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