FreeBSD on IBM x345 2U server?

Tom Samplonius tom at sdf.com
Thu May 22 10:17:43 PDT 2003


On Thu, 22 May 2003, Ted Cabeen wrote:

> 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.  :(

  Well, you might want to add CD-ROMs, or upgrade your NICs before floppy
drives are completely obsolete.  A external USB drive (CD-ROM or flash)
would also be an option.  Some vendors (Dell) are not going to include
floppies on their systems anymore.  Soon floppies will gone entirely.

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Tom



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