From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 18 02:24:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA21412 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 02:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dublin.iona.ie (operation.dublin.iona.ie [192.122.221.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA21401 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 02:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ultra (ultra [192.122.221.136]) by dublin.iona.ie (8.7.5/jm-1.01) with SMTP id KAA21984; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:24:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:23:44 +0100 (BST) From: Niall Smart X-Sender: nsmart@ultra To: Tommy Hallgren cc: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM image In-Reply-To: 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 Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Tommy Hallgren wrote: > 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? If people are having trouble burning their own CD-ROMS maybe they should shell out a few bucks for the official CD. Saves on bandwidth and supports the FreeBSD project as opposed to your local ISP/Telco. -- Niall Smart Customer Engineering, IONA Technologies. (www.iona.com)