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Date:      Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:24:49 -0800
From:      Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com>
To:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x
Message-ID:  <20040108172449.GE53429@silverwraith.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040108175523.P32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
References:  <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> <20040108175523.P32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>

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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:56:22PM +0200, Narvi wrote:
> > And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even
> > if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to
> > install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the
> > LAN from a local FTP mirror, which is as fast as a CD drive anyway.
> 
> Which would obviously mean that there would be lots of volunteers for the
> position of floppy maintainer?

How you made the jump from "I don't want to buy a CD burner to install
FreeBSD" to "I will be a floppy maintainer" I'm not sure. :-)



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