Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:23:02 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, "newbies" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: install from floppy Message-ID: <01022815263608.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au> In-Reply-To: <02b201c09fa3$3b39c020$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <0102261151010E.00803@PhD_1.testname.com.au> <02b201c09fa3$3b39c020$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Doug Young wrote: > Well yes installing from floppies IS troublesome at times, but I had to do > it with a bunch of prehistoric 386 Wangs that wouldn't look at a CD-ROM. > > Brian is totally correct when he says floppies cark it at a critical moment, > however if you have (like I did at the time) such a pile of systemslying > around that a kangaroo dog couldn't jump over its not particularly difficult > to kick one into life to create replacement bin floppies on the fly :) 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"! -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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