From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 6 3:46:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2F937B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 03:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F8743E8A for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 03:46:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0009.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.9] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 189Odl-0006fS-00 for alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 03:46:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC900CC.B88AF50B@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 03:45:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) References: <108E7D907871D6118B5000306E0189F85759A2@ednex504.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20021105002107.GA48239@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021105083559.B5083@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3DC77F65.727CCDA8@mindspring.com> <20021106080934.GA97235@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:20:53AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Yet... my DEC labelled Alpha box has a floppy drive, but doesn't > > have a CDROM drive, unless I hook my own to the SCSI connector... > > When was the last time you booted that box? One week ago. > When was the last time you installed FreeBSD on that box? Mostly, I run NetBSD on the box. When I run FreeBSD, I run it on a removable SyJet drive cartridge on the onboard SCSI. I've kept the FreeBSD upgradedm whenever -current was stable, which was rarely, until more recently. The FreeBSD that's on it was installed via a floppy. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message