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

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Michel TALON wrote:

> > And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even
> > if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to
> > install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the
> > LAN from a local FTP mirror, which is as fast as a CD drive anyway.
>
> 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 ..

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