From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 27 21:22: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3C437B71F for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:22:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07337; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:21:54 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "roadrunner" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdEQ7335; Wed Feb 28 15:21:48 2001 Message-ID: <02b801c0a146$76345e20$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: , "newbies" References: <0102261151010E.00803@PhD_1.testname.com.au> <02b201c09fa3$3b39c020$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <01022815263608.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Subject: Re: install from floppy Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:22:34 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Actually Doug, it was because I couldn't do what you say you did (make a > replacement floppy and offer it to the install program and continue) that made > me so cross. > I didn't think "try again" should mean "start over from the beginning"! yeah .... it does give one a case of the "irrits" when that happens. I have had it happen but thankfully not very often ....95% of the time when I get a deceased floppy I just whack in another one with the same files & voila !!!. I did mess around with local FTP installs a while back but didn't get anywhere (like all things unix its undoubtedly simple but not well explained) Maybe I could get it to work now but why bother when I have a permanent connection ?? The regular CD install is definitely the easiest if you have a good CD (some of the Tesla ones are trouble), & FTP from someplace else works fine as long as you have a reasonable permanent connection. (ie preferably not relying on Tel$tra) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message