On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 13:58:07 -0800, Walt Pawley w...@wump.org wrote:
At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote:
While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the
like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy
drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try
At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote:
While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the
like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy
drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy a new machine with a
floppy drive-- they don't sell them anymore,
Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote:
... I really cannot understand why nobody can change
just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/
I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped
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On 06/03/2010 09:26:22, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped
because few current (or even recent) systems have a floppy drive at
all, much less a bootable one.
Yeah, but the floppy disk
In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment
floppies are the best or even the only solution.
Actually if I haven't found the solution to use floppy to install FreeBSD, I
would be forced to use another system eg. OpenBSD instead, even if I prefer
FreeBSD.
The decision to
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:24:30 +0100, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com
wrote:
In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment
floppies are the best or even the only solution.
[...]
The decision to make floppies obsolete is very bad, because it is still
needed by many
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:54:38 +
From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk
Subject: Re: freebsd install from floppy
To: per...@pluto.rain.com
Cc: questi...@freebsd.org,
plukaw...@gmail.com
Message-ID: 4b92265e.5030...@infracaninophile.co.uk
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On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:44 PM, James Phillips wrote:
Correction: Apple stopped selling computers with floppy drives about
10 years ago. The floppy drive is not obsolete because there is
still no viable replacement that has the same (or better)
functionality.
While I think floppy drives are
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:33:52PM +0100, Piotr Lukawski wrote:
Dears,
I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no
floppy images in
Illoai,
Thanks a lot! Your solution works - system is up and running now :-)
However, in such a case I really cannot understand why nobody can change
just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in
On 5 March 2010 13:51, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 4 March 2010 05:51, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote:
Dears,
I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are
no
Dears,
I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no
floppy images in
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mentioned
in
On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote:
Dears,
I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no
floppy images in
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