FreeBSD on IBM x345 2U server?
Ted Cabeen
secabeen at pobox.com
Thu May 22 09:50:59 PDT 2003
Tom Samplonius <tom at sdf.com> writes:
> On Wed, 21 May 2003, Christoffer Pio wrote:
>
> ...
>> from floppies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp), I cannot imagine
>> how it could make a difference installing from a CDROM.
>
> Well, way more drivers can fit on the CDROM for one.
>
> However, I don't know why anyone would install from floppies, if you
> have a CD-ROM. Floppies are slow and hold a tiny amount of data.
Because you have a local mirror of FreeBSD and all you need is the two
boot floppies and a copy of your install.cfg to do a full automated
install. Many of our systems don't have CD-ROM drives, but they all
have floppies. Ideally I'd be doing entirely net-based installs, but
the Ethernet cards we have don't do netboot. :(
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