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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: bad source in the distro iso's
From:       Julian Elischer <julian () elischer ! org>
Date:       2009-11-16 17:34:04
Message-ID: 4B018D0C.8060601 () elischer ! org
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> writes:
>> See
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-October/052241.html
>> - apparently people are still wanting to install from floppies.
> 
> The mind boggles.
> 
> If you can't boot from CD-ROM, use a USB stick.  If you can't boot from
> a USB stick, use PXE.  If your NIC doesn't do PXE, you can get one that
> does for $20.  If that is not an option either, move the disk to another
> machine, install, and move it back.
> 
> If you really want to install 7.2 from floppies, you will need 76 disks
> just to get a bootable system.  For 8.0, you will need 84.
> 
> DES


I think the easiest answer would be:
install 6.x or something, and upgrade.

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