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Date:      Mon, 08 Mar 1999 14:12:20 -0800
From:      charon@freethought.org
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Handbook: Installation
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990308141220.00a5a310@mail>
In-Reply-To: <19990308185824.015680@relay.skynet.be>

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At 06:58 PM 3/8/99 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
>    At no time on <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html>; (or any
>page linked to from this one) can I find a single reference as to exactly
>where on the FTP server the floppy images are located.
...
>I don't
>remember how I got the floppy images the first time I installed FreeBSD
>on one of our servers, but surely it doesn't have to be this painful.

Yes!  All the versions I've used (2.2.2 to 3.0) before 3.1 had a direct
link to the floppy image(s).  What happened??  As someone who only recently
got very in touch with the FreeBSD scene, I can attest that newbies are
going to be completely confused by this.



-charon


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