FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Wed Dec 8 10:13:11 UTC 2010


On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:01:32 +1000
Andy Farkas <chuzzwassa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why is this so?

I think the Fixit environment only contains tools necessary for
installing the system and has traditionally needed to be small enough
to fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk. So since "ls" wasn't required it
wasn't included.

-- 
Bruce Cran


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