Chris wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Broder Mizz�rable wrote:
Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs on it but still boot it and download FTP wise .. as you would do as on the floppy installation ... i do ask this cuz i dont have any free CD's atm ..I'm not quite following what you mean? You tried the standard tools to make the floppy's, like rawrite and dd? AND you did format these disk before hand to check that they didn't have bad sectors?.... I have a big box of floppy's that have been siting in the closet and every time I need one I have to go through 20 or so bad ones that have bad sectors or invalid media to find the one perfect one. floppy diskettes are junk thats why we stopped using them.
I agree with Nikolas to a point. Before the advent of burning your own CD's floppies did just fine. It's all in how they are taken care of. Addressing the Hello, we're starting to see the wave of users that don't have the conceptual ideas of how the floppy was used, and possibly how CD's are used.
*Sigh* Gone are the days when users had the ground up ideas and experience (that are deemed as practical). Good thing the new wave of users are not asked to configure a boot disk that requires the need of better then 600 k of conventional memory.
I remember those days!, I liked them too as you "told" the computer to do something and it did it. Then came the GUI and the mouse. Ever since then I have felt something missing, I think I figured it out. point and click == point and grunt.
But in answer - No, you can't use a pre-closed CD.
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