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My early FreeBSD moment was when I had a cable modem, and you were able to download one or two boot floppies. After you booted them up, you could install the en

My early FreeBSD moment was when I had a cable modem, and you were able to download one or two boot floppies. After you booted them up, you could install the entire OS from the network. No CD needed. I assume it just downloaded everything straight from FTP servers.

ioman 3y ago
Oh, look who has a fancy cable modem! Back in my day, we had to do it with 14.4 kbaud modems (really) after walking to school, uphill both ways in the snow (not really).
- mzi 3y ago
  I would guess you had a 14.4 kbps modem operating on 9600 baud.