Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:13:19 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040108081318.GM47728@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108075059.GK53429@silverwraith.com> <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:58:11AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of > Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this > > CD format, please take in to account: > > And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even > if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to > install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the > LAN from a local FTP mirror, which is as fast as a CD drive anyway. My personal descision was to use Compactflash Media in IDE mode. They are easy to modify with your notebook. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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