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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: installing freebsd Date: 28 Aug 1995 09:37:51 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <41s2pf$rfn@reason.cdrom.com> References: <41q1t6$ems@buffnet2.buffnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: root@buffnet.net X-URL: news:41q1t6$ems@buffnet2.buffnet.net root@buffnet.net (Superuser) wrote: > >Just a comment - When I installed freebsd 2.0 the ftp option for >installing didnt work. Well, it sort of did, but it was very very picky. The 2.0.5 one is much more robust. >When I installed 2.0.5 - the ftp option worked - but the floppy one didnt. > >I hate to say this (well not really or I wouldnt) but should these things >be tested? Well, we DO test them, we just don't always have time or access to every single platform and rely to a great extent on our BETA testers. If nobody installs off of floppy, then this install method doesn't get well tested. I did several floppy installs which worked fine, but I can't say that this was necessarily bullet-proof. Not too many people use that install method, and when you have FTP, CDROM, NFS, tape, floppy and DOS mode installation as available options, that's a lot of testing ground to cover! -- Jordan