Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 12:29:17 -0500 From: Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org> To: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <3EB2AAED.5050000@jocose.org> In-Reply-To: <20030502164416.GD577@xtanbul> References: <3EB29E31.9090502@jocose.org> <20030502164416.GD577@xtanbul>
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The Anarcat wrote: > Do we need to go over this again? > > There *are* machines out there without CDROM and there's surely a lot > of BIOS out there that can't boot from the CDROM. > Okay. I also saw Doug Barton's comment on the floppy images needing to work. > Also, I like the idea of grabbing a 1.44MB file, writing it to a > floppy and doing a network install of the necessary bits instead of > downloading the whole ISO. > > Much more bandwidth friendly for our non-broadband friends out there. > I agree with you 100%. The floppy install is great, it is the install floppies that are not. > Please, let the dead horse alone. > This problem is by no means dead, if it were I'd be able to download the latest JPSNAP flops, AND USE THEM. I would have never brought this up, now would I. I know that it is not an impossible problem to solve. What about having a more broken down set of floppies to choose from? A plus would be that people may well not need the drivers.flp because they can choose a kern.flp more fitting to their system. Pete...
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