Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:12:46 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 boot floppies Message-ID: <43BC020E.4000606@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060104162356.GA691@bsd.trippelsdorf.de> References: <20060104120024.2556B16A420@hub.freebsd.org> <20060104075019.W36259@roble.com> <20060104162356.GA691@bsd.trippelsdorf.de>
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Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:59:08AM -0800, Roger Marquis wrote: > >>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. > > > Sure, but the point is that I don't need any kind of burner. > > >>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. > > > The infrastructure to automatically produce the boot floppies is > already there. All that is needed, is the short patch from John to > turn it on. > BTW I tested the floppies today and everything is working without any > problem. > Ah, so you built a release with John's patch, and the result works? If so, we might as well commit it. How many floppies were generated? Scott
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