the too many distro's have actually helped.keep some computers from the landfill or recyling .. and into the hands of people who may be not be able to have computers.

I've saved and donated laptops using deli linux, dsl, slax, slackware and xubuntu. but give us more reasons to use BSD. lets talk positively about BSD. I use all the tools and resources available to me.

I remember searching for just a floppy based install and I was searching all the distros for it. Could BSD be installed with floppys?

Ive never tried but I asume it could be installed on older machines somehow.

The three main BSDs (Net, Open and Free) each have about 6 options for how to install the system. The more interesting of these are:

1. Floppy
2. Local filesystem
3. FTP

An installation from floppy is only for the determined. It takes two boot disks to start the installer and about 20 disks to hold the base set and kernel. The other two options sound a bit more usefull.

Tnanks Mushy

no internet and limited resources where i'm trying to get these relics to work .. but if i get them working and started maybe a resourceful whiz kid will find the parts to do 2. or 3.