Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:42:00 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Royce Williams <royce.williams@gmail.com>, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Release 8.0 floppy images Message-ID: <201005111542.o4BFg0qS010723@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 10 May 2010 12:39:19 CDT." <20100510173919.GA11737@lonesome.com>
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Hi, Mark Linimon wrote: > You can still build them. They just won't be built by default. Trying that now on 8.0-RELEASE amd64 Thanks. Ken Smith wrote: > building them now > fails due to another of the handful of reasons we wanted > to abandon floppies > ... > the 'livefs' > one can't and it recently started overflowing. I hope that's stable or current & not 8.0-RELEASE. > Those reasons combined with the fact I can't even test > them any more all combined to convince the developer > community 8.0 was a reasonable point to let floppy > support fall by the wayside. Thanks for the reply. Understandable that developers hosts have lost interest in floppies. But a lot of old servers & laptops used as spare terminas etc may have floppy & ether but no cdrom or USB, inc eg this laptop running 7.2: http://www.berklix.org/~jhs/hardware/laptops/dell_latitude_xpi_p133st/ I suspect people who live near you may sometime offer to drop off a spare old PC with a floppy ;-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text, Not HTML quoted-printable Base64 http://www.asciiribbon.org
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