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On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:56:02PM +1100, Rob B wrote:
> >> Will there be floppies built for 5.2-BETA (or 5.2-RELEASE for that
> >> >matter)?
> >
> >There will be no more floppies because of size issues.
> 
> bugger :(    I don't suppose that FreeBSD will ever suport dd-ing whatever 
> file will be used to boot from to swap space in the same way that Open- and 
> NetBSD do?  At least this way there won't be so much of a size restriction 
> on that file.

We off the "boot-only" ISO for that use. :-)