Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:23:44 +0100 (BST) From: Niall Smart <nsmart@iona.com> To: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM image Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970918102155.16878K-100000@ultra> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970918095837.12890B-100000@dali8.mdstud.chalmers.se>
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On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Tommy Hallgren wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > > > As Tommy Hallgren wrote: > > > > > I read that the Debian group has made a CDROM image of their release, > > > maybe this would be a good idea for the FreeBSD community as well? > > > > > > The idea is nice, just download the image, burn it, make some floppys and > > > reboot. > > > > What (except the smaller traffic) would it buy you to just download > > the boot floppy, and use the FTP installation method? If people are having trouble burning their own CD-ROMS maybe they should shell out a few bucks for the official CD. Saves on bandwidth and supports the FreeBSD project as opposed to your local ISP/Telco. -- Niall Smart Customer Engineering, IONA Technologies. (www.iona.com)
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