On 07/20/2010 02:42 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I've wondered why FreeBSD installation sets (base, etc, games, comp, man and > others) are broken into pieces of 1392 KB each as opposed to each > installation set in a single .tgz or .tbz (base.tgz, etc.tgz, comp.tgz, and > others: that's how NetBSD does it). NetBSD installation CD also offers a > utility shell (sh). With floppy disks and floppy drives showing their age, I > wouldn't be able to get enough good floppy disks together to install FreeBSD > from floppies...
If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say it's because not everyone who uses FreeBSD is on a broadband connection, and a 56MB download (just for base.??) is a bit too large to fetch in a single session, if for some reason you are unable to resume the transfer after interruption. But the floppy thing might be a good reason too. Especially since all you really need is one working floppy disk and two floppy-drive-equipped computers to do it. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net <cyber...@cyberleo.net> Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
