Chris wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:08 PM
To: Broder Mizz�rable
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Need help *fast*
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.
No, floppy diskettes are definitely not junk, there is nothing wrong with the medium except that it doesen't hold enough.
I used to work at a large software developer, Symantec formerly Central Point Software (ie: PCTools) The last floppy runs of PCTools had at least 20 5.25 diskettes and about 15 3.5 floppies and Central Point did their own duplicating. There was no way in hell that floppies that were anywhere near as bad as you imply could have been used for commercial duplication, the reject rate would have been too high.
The problem today is that the floppy diskettes you buy in the store today are not manufactured under the high tolerances that they are supposed to be, and the floppy disk drives are also slopped together. I don't know how the commercial duplicators do it if any are still doing floppy runs, probably none are anymore. My guess is the few people still manufacturing them are using old ratty equipment that probably should have been retired years ago.
Ted
Good Lord! PCTools!!! Now yer talking! Even back when 95 came on like 30 diskettes... or was that OS/2?
Both! :-)
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