Hi, Matthew D. Fuller wrote on Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:58:11AM -0600: [..] > And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even > if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to > install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the > LAN from a local FTP mirror, which is as fast as a CD drive anyway.
That's no point, as you can use a CD-RW, so no media is wasted. Install over LAN is done anyway, as Scott mentioned only the basic boot/install-strap is put into the emulated image. However, I second the point, that there is recent hardware around which cannot have a CD-Drive attached, but a floppy drive, because of space constraints. On the other hand, I guess such systems are able to boot over the network. I'd love to see a integrated boot and installation procedure that utilizes PXE (or any other network boot method) and advocates it. (In this regard I just love Suns). my 0.02€, Daniel -- IRCnet: Mr-Spock - Work is for people, who don't surf - Daniel Lang * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * +49 89 289 18532 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/
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