Re: FreeBSD on IBM x345 2U server?

From: Ted Cabeen (secabeen_at_pobox.com)
Date: 05/22/03

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    To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:50:58 -0700

    Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> writes:

    > On Wed, 21 May 2003, Christoffer Pio wrote:
    >
    > ...
    >> from floppies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp), I cannot imagine
    >> how it could make a difference installing from a CDROM.
    >
    > Well, way more drivers can fit on the CDROM for one.
    >
    > However, I don't know why anyone would install from floppies, if you
    > have a CD-ROM. Floppies are slow and hold a tiny amount of data.

    Because you have a local mirror of FreeBSD and all you need is the two
    boot floppies and a copy of your install.cfg to do a full automated
    install. Many of our systems don't have CD-ROM drives, but they all
    have floppies. Ideally I'd be doing entirely net-based installs, but
    the Ethernet cards we have don't do netboot. :( 

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