Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:59:08 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 boot floppies Message-ID: <20060104075019.W36259@roble.com> In-Reply-To: <20060104120024.2556B16A420@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060104120024.2556B16A420@hub.freebsd.org>
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Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > When I upgraded my old Celeron box a year ago, I had to buy a CDROM > burner, so that I could burn the install CD for my new machine. Since > than it is sitting idle in its slot. You could also have purchased a USB-CD-RW or USB-DVD-RW. The problem with floppies is their A) tendency to develop bad sectors, and B) increasing rarity. The lines of code needed for a boot floppy would be much better spent on other bootable media, Flash, DVD, etc, all of which would have larger and more appreciative audiences. -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/
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