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Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Trever <anti_spamsys@yahoo.com>,
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Subject: Re: bad source in the distro iso's
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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.