On Friday 09 January 2004 09:34 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Michel TALON wrote: > > > > Sincerely FreeBSD developers have more important tasks than spending > > hours to fit an installable system on floppies. When FreeBSD used > > one floppy, it was tolerable to do floppy installs. With 2 or 3 > > floppies it is awfully slow, i have done once and will never do it > > again. > > I still use floppies to do my installs, and find getting the base > system up over FTP to generally take <30minutes *shrug* Faster, IMHO, > then downloading the ISO and burning it to a CD ..
Faster than loading a single ISO image with only the boot information and sysinstall and booting from that, rather than 3 (or 4 or 5) floppies? A CD-R is cheaper, faster, more reliable, and you don't have to keep feeding them into the machine. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"