Re: freebsd install from floppy

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 13:58:07 -0800, Walt Pawley 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 to buy

Re: freebsd install from floppy

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 anymor

Re: freebsd install from floppy

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 s

Re: freebsd install from floppy

> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:54:38 + > From: Matthew Seaman > 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> > Content-T

Re: freebsd install from floppy

On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:24:30 +0100, Piotr Lukawski 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 people. Sometimes

Re: freebsd install from floppy

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 mak

Re: freebsd install from floppy

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: freebsd install from floppy

Piotr Lukawski 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 because few current (o

Re: freebsd install from floppy

On 5 March 2010 13:51, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > On 4 March 2010 05:51, ill...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski wrote: >> > Dears, >> > I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are >> > no >> > floppy images . . . >> > Could you please produce ins

Re: freebsd install from floppy

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 ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/

Re: freebsd install from floppy

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 > +ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/

Re: freebsd install from floppy

On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > 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/mention

freebsd install from floppy

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/mentioned in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books