From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 03:21:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1979416A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:21:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E33A43D2F for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:21:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0478C60EA; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:21:30 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 71014-05; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:21:18 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B5A60E7; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:21:17 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41D0D165.6090101@makeworld.com> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:22:13 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041218) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <41D0CE1B.6060408@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41D0CE1B.6060408@nbritton.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig371771EC6E2D426A3C7687E2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Broder_Mizz=E9rable?= cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help *fast* X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:21:31 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig371771EC6E2D426A3C7687E2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Nikolas Britton wrote: > Broder Mizzérable wrote: > >> Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the >> floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to >> small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That >> does already has stuffs on it but still boot it and download FTP wise >> .. as you would do as on the floppy installation ... i do ask this cuz >> i dont have any free CD's atm .. >> > I'm not quite following what you mean? You tried the standard tools to > make the floppy's, like rawrite and dd? AND you did format these disk > before hand to check that they didn't have bad sectors?.... I have a big > box of floppy's that have been siting in the closet and every time I > need one I have to go through 20 or so bad ones that have bad sectors or > invalid media to find the one perfect one. floppy diskettes are junk > thats why we stopped using them. I agree with Nikolas to a point. Before the advent of burning your own CD's floppies did just fine. It's all in how they are taken care of. Addressing the Hello, we're starting to see the wave of users that don't have the conceptual ideas of how the floppy was used, and possibly how CD's are used. *Sigh* Gone are the days when users had the ground up ideas and experience (that are deemed as practical). Good thing the new wave of users are not asked to configure a boot disk that requires the need of better then 600 k of conventional memory. But in answer - No, you can't use a pre-closed CD. -- Best regards, Chris --------------enig371771EC6E2D426A3C7687E2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB0NFqD5P/gMAbw2MRAqd5AKCVRNejVWCUA7XzRfr+p3Awxv7EbgCgjZnW akjwmo8OMEcHo/PODTs3B88= =ZTaB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig371771EC6E2D426A3C7687E2--