Need help *fast*

[Nikolas Britton]

Chris wrote:

> Nikolas Britton wrote:
>
>> Broder Mizzérable wrote:
>>
>>> Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use 
>>> the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 
>>> 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a 
>>> CD ' That does already has stuffs on it but still boot it and 
>>> download FTP wise .. as you would do as on the floppy installation 
>>> ... i do ask this cuz i dont have any free CD's atm ..
>>>
>> I'm not quite following what you mean? You tried the standard tools 
>> to make the floppy's, like rawrite and dd? AND you did format these 
>> disk before hand to check that they didn't have bad sectors?.... I 
>> have a big box of floppy's that have been siting in the closet and 
>> every time I need one I have to go through 20 or so bad ones that 
>> have bad sectors or invalid media to find the one perfect one. floppy 
>> diskettes are junk thats why we stopped using them.
>
>
> I agree with Nikolas to a point. Before the advent of burning your own 
> CD's floppies did just fine. It's all in how they are taken care of. 
> Addressing the Hello, we're starting to see the wave of users that 
> don't have the conceptual ideas of how the floppy was used, and 
> possibly how CD's are used.
>
> *Sigh* Gone are the days when users had the ground up ideas and 
> experience (that are deemed as practical). Good thing the new wave of 
> users are not asked to configure a boot disk that requires the need of 
> better then 600 k of conventional memory.

I remember those days!, I liked them too as you "told" the computer to 
do something and it did it. Then came the GUI and the mouse. Ever since 
then I have felt something missing, I think I figured it out. point and 
click == point and grunt.

>
> But in answer - No, you can't use a pre-closed CD.
>