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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:05:35 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        Trever <anti_spamsys@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bad source in the distro iso's
Message-ID:  <867htqoc0w.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20091116125625.000058a7@unknown> (Bruce Cran's message of "Mon,  16 Nov 2009 12:56:25 %2B0000")
References:  <159670.52451.qm@web113214.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <86lji6pzk3.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20091116125625.000058a7@unknown>

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Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> writes:
> See
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-October/052241.html
> - apparently people are still wanting to install from floppies.

The mind boggles.

If you can't boot from CD-ROM, use a USB stick.  If you can't boot from
a USB stick, use PXE.  If your NIC doesn't do PXE, you can get one that
does for $20.  If that is not an option either, move the disk to another
machine, install, and move it back.

If you really want to install 7.2 from floppies, you will need 76 disks
just to get a bootable system.  For 8.0, you will need 84.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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