From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 11 15:43:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA5F106564A for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 15:43:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757C48FC14 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 15:43:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A6BA2.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.107.162]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o4BFgp3Y006253; Tue, 11 May 2010 15:42:59 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4BFgaWm098537; Tue, 11 May 2010 17:42:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4BFg0qS010723; Tue, 11 May 2010 17:42:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201005111542.o4BFg0qS010723@fire.js.berklix.net> to: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Mon, 10 May 2010 12:39:19 CDT." <20100510173919.GA11737@lonesome.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:42:00 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: Mark Linimon , Royce Williams , Ken Smith Subject: Re: FreeBSD Release 8.0 floppy images X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 15:43:04 -0000 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