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From: vpv@benefits.aibpa.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I MUST have a Floppy (yech) FreeBSD install --- anyone ever done one?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 21:50:40 GMT
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In article <5qilj2$j07@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu>, User Rdkeys <rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>4. HAS ANYONE EVER done a floppy install of FreeBSD????? Everyone does
> the ftp or nfs or cdrom install that I have ever heard of. Has anyone
> actually ever tested the floppy install? If so, I need to find out
> the particulars therof. My install scripts on 2.1.5 worked fine, except
> for the actual reading of the disk, and sure feels untested or broken
> to me. My office FreeBSD boxes came up fine, so I don't think it is
> my inexperience at the installs (done about a dozen installs now, yup
> yup yup, and just love that FreeBSD install simplicity.....(:+}}.....).
I just installed the latest release form floppy.
It was quite easy. Go to the freebsd home page (www.freebsd.org) and
download the startup file and the program that puts it on disk.
The disk will dial your ISP and download all of the components for you!
One piece of advice: Do the minimal install. Yo can always load the
retrieve/setup software again later to pick up the packages.
Any more questions? :)
Vince
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