Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:19:26 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Daniel Lang <langd-freebsd-hackers@leo.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040109211926.GR25474@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20040108095207.GA52153@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108075059.GK53429@silverwraith.com> <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> <20040108095207.GA52153@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:52:08AM +0100, Daniel Lang wrote: >Matthew D. Fuller wrote on Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:58:11AM -0600: >[..] >> 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. > >That's no point, as you can use a CD-RW, so no media is wasted. Not all CD readers will read CD-RW's (I have one that won't). And this doesn't solve the problem of not having a CD burner or installing onto a system that either doesn't have a CD drive or won't boot off one (I have systems in both categories). >On the other hand, I guess such systems are able to boot over >the network. I'd love to see a integrated boot and installation >procedure that utilizes PXE (or any other network boot method) >and advocates it. (In this regard I just love Suns). Keep in mind that older systems probably won't boot over the network without a netboot ROM or similar. The netboot ROM images are (or were) in the distribution but aren't much use without an EPROM burner. Peter
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