Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:49:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jon Groves <jgroves@athenet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Getting FreeBSD on floppy (was: free DSB) Message-ID: <19980706114925.Y18970@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000001bda881$4d1c74c0$3c0678cc@minerva.athenet.net>; from Jon Groves on Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 08:56:31PM -0500 References: <000001bda881$4d1c74c0$3c0678cc@minerva.athenet.net>
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On Sunday, 5 July 1998 at 20:56:31 -0500, Jon Groves wrote: > I do not understand how you can say that "Free DSB" is free, If it cost $40 > to get the CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CD-ROM CO. Well, first we prefer to call it FreeBSD. Secondly, you're confusing the price of the software with the price of the media. FreeBSD is free; the CDs will cost you $40. > I would like to get a copy of the software, is there some one other > than Walnut Creek to get it from?? I prefer the 3.5'' DISKS because > I do not have a CD-ROM drive on the computer I plan to install on, > and not FTP because the speed of my connection and distance from > your server to me is to slow and to far for a fast download. It's a good idea to watch the traffic on the list before sending a message. In this case, you would have seen your own message go by yesterday. Here's what I answered: > On Saturday, 4 July 1998 at 23:04:17 -0400, bj wrote: >> Hi , i was wondering if i could purchase FreeBSD on a 1.44 floppy? thanks > > Well, it's not available that way, but I suppose I could make you a > set. Let's see, > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/cd0a 647556 647556 0 100% /cdrom/1 > /dev/cd1a 600578 600578 0 100% /cdrom/2 > /dev/cd3a 641716 641716 0 100% /cdrom/4 > /dev/cd2a 653044 653044 0 100% /cdrom/3 > > That's 2542894 kB, or 1765 floppies. Just for you, I'll do them for > $1 each. > > Of course, there are no guarantees that all the floppies will be > readable. In fact, there's a good chance that 10 or so won't be. And > for the same price, I could give you 10 sets of CDs *and* 10 CD ROM > drives. > > That's why FreeBSD isn't available on floppy. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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