From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 8 21:42:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A4137B400; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5FE43E6E; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:42:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g794gYQZ071729; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:12:35 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: 3 floppy system for -current releases From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , John Hay In-Reply-To: <20020809042955.GA980@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200208081632.g78GWeq61331@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20020808172715.GA29895@sunbay.com> <20020809042955.GA980@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 09 Aug 2002 14:12:33 +0930 Message-Id: <1028868155.2345.7.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:59, David O'Brien wrote: > Why?? I disagree. CD9600 can go to the 3rd floppy -- if I am installing > from floppy's I am 99.9% chance doing a network install. NFSCLIENT > definitely should be on the 1st or 2nd, not 3rd floppy -- again because I > am most likely doing a network install and that is the 2nd most popular > network access protocol (FTP being 1st). Can't say that's true for me. I have to use floppies for a lot of systems because they have SCSI CD-R's in them with crappy non-BIOS patching SCSI cards. I think MSDOS installs are pretty rare and NFS ones even rarer (FTP is easier to setup) Survey time! :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message