From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 3 15:08:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC04037B401 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 15:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns3.safety.net (ns3.safety.net [216.40.201.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528E843F93 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 15:08:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cbiffle@safety.net) Received: from localhost (rs.rackshack.net.safety.net [216.40.201.32]) by ns3.safety.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h43M86A21389; Sat, 3 May 2003 15:08:06 -0700 From: "Cliff L. Biffle" To: Duraid Madina Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 15:09:19 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305031509.19473.cbiffle@safety.net> cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 22:08:10 -0000 On Saturday 03 May 2003 06:16 am, Duraid Madina wrote: > Can anyone give a *good* reason why floppies should still be supported > from this point onwards? 1. El Torito. Last I checked, under emulation, 2.88MB was the largest boot image available, so fitting the bootloader/kernel/etc. onto two floppies is still quite significant. I've only run across one machine that could competently handle non-emulated CD booting. 2. Servers without CDROM drives. As another poster mentioned, 1U rack or clustering servers frequently don't have CDROMs. I know mine don't. I'm still confused as to why the $CVS$ tags are going into the kernel on the floppies, but that strikes me as minor. :-) -Cliff L. Biffle