Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:45:27 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <200401101945.27234.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20040110013313.Q51801@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20040110013313.Q51801@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Friday 09 January 2004 09:34 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Michel TALON wrote:
> >
> > Sincerely FreeBSD developers have more important tasks than spending
> > hours to fit an installable system on floppies. When FreeBSD used
> > one floppy, it was tolerable to do floppy installs. With 2 or 3
> > floppies it is awfully slow, i have done once and will never do it
> > again.
>
> I still use floppies to do my installs, and find getting the base
> system up over FTP to generally take <30minutes *shrug* Faster, IMHO,
> then downloading the ISO and burning it to a CD ..
Faster than loading a single ISO image with only the boot information and
sysinstall and booting from that, rather than 3 (or 4 or 5) floppies? A
CD-R is cheaper, faster, more reliable, and you don't have to keep
feeding them into the machine.
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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