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Originally Posted by Lazy
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
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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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