Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:42:49 -0800 From: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> To: Martin Nilsson <martin@mullet.se> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040108154248.GX53429@silverwraith.com> In-Reply-To: <3FFD4B8E.6050102@mullet.se> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <3FFD4B8E.6050102@mullet.se>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:22:38PM +0100, Martin Nilsson wrote: > Are you aware that the FreeBSD CD:s (both 4.9 & 5.2) are not bootable on > a CD-ROM connected via USB? Both try to boot but hangs somewhere in the > loader. This is on our P4 Supermicro serverboards. As usual Win2K, 2K3 & > RedHat just works. An external USB2.0 connected Asus CD-RW drive > (52x/24x/52x) with power supply costs about $70 so this is really > nothing expensive or fancy today. Please do not assume that because it costs $70 it is universally availible. There are a lot of people who cannot afford this: the unemployed school children retired persons (sometimes) people with families to support :) Unfortuantely I feel this does need to be taken in to account here. While I totally empathise with Scott's problem and the lack of time to do things the way we have been, we need to appreciate that telling everyone to burn a CD to install FreeBSD (thus incur costs if you don't have a CD burner, and wouldn't need one if not to install FreeBSD) is not far from the "You must pay us to buy this on CD" approach (openbsd)
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