On Friday 09 January 2004 09:34 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote:Yes, and what about my P3-500 server that has no CD drive in it? I hardly think I'm going to purchase a CD drive just for that server.
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Michel TALON wrote:
Sincerely FreeBSD developers have more important tasks than spendingI still use floppies to do my installs, and find getting the base
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.
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.
If there ever comes a time when I have to decide between purchasing a CD drive to reinstall a broken installation of FBSD that I have deemed unrecoverable or using linux (where I can use floppies all day and night), I'll be installing linux.
However, on this note, I would like to say I'd like to help out with a floppy project, but I would not want to be "floppy maintainer." At least, not until I knew a lot more about how things worked, and even then, I'm not sure, because of time and lack of several test systems.
Later!
-- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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