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Old 12th May 2008
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Originally Posted by Lazy View Post
That's what I thought too, till a friend of mine who knows a million times more about computer than I, read page 25 (FreeBSD Unleashed) "A floppy intallation involves downloading several hundred megabytes..." - a remark that the author could've made less confusing

It's needed for an installation from floppy because the floppy can't fit the files, only way is through the network or (afaik) an existing partition.

I believe you can do the network install from the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM too if you wanted ;-)
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