From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 18 01:01:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA16957 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 01:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piggy.mdstud.chalmers.se (root@piggy.mdstud.chalmers.se [129.16.234.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA16951 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 01:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dali8.mdstud.chalmers.se (md6tommy@dali8.mdstud.chalmers.se [129.16.235.18]) by piggy.mdstud.chalmers.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA21200; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:01:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (md6tommy@localhost) by dali8.mdstud.chalmers.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA12969; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:01:17 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: dali8.mdstud.chalmers.se: md6tommy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:01:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tommy Hallgren To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM image In-Reply-To: <19970917202032.WM57415@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Tommy Hallgren wrote: > > > I read that the Debian group has made a CDROM image of their release, > > maybe this would be a good idea for the FreeBSD community as well? > > > > The idea is nice, just download the image, burn it, make some floppys and > > reboot. > > What (except the smaller traffic) would it buy you to just download > the boot floppy, and use the FTP installation method? Ftp'ing 650MB using a fast connection is no problem, but doing the ftp'installation at home using 33.6k modem is horror. I'd rather use the fast connection and take a CD home and install from that. You folks keep forgetting that not everyone have a speedy connection at home. Mvh: Tommy