Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

[Wes Peters]

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.

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Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com