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Date:      09 Aug 2002 14:12:33 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
Subject:   Re: 3 floppy system for -current releases
Message-ID:  <1028868155.2345.7.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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>

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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
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are so many of them to choose from."
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