From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 23:48:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29026 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29021 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA19418; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 02:48:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 02:48:33 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: "David O'Brien" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space In-Reply-To: <19981205234209.U10572@nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > > This limitation is not that major as most current BIOSes support the > > 2.8 format. > > Current maybe.. but I think you underestimate the number of older > machines people install FreeBSD on. But those `older machines' tend not to support booting from CD. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message