From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 3 18:48:52 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 10BAA37B401 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 18:48:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moghedien.mukappabeta.net (moghedien.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C8443FCB for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 18:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkb@moghedien.mukappabeta.net) Received: by moghedien.mukappabeta.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CD5312D2C; Sun, 4 May 2003 03:48:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 03:48:58 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow To: Duraid Madina Message-ID: <20030504014858.GA23099@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <200305031817.16068.bsdterm@HotPOP.com> <3EB450E0.9060702@octopus.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EB450E0.9060702@octopus.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: bsdterm@HotPOP.com cc: freebsd-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: Sun, 04 May 2003 01:48:52 -0000 Duraid Madina writes: >Are you saying that you would be honestly upset or at a serious >disadvantage if 4.8/5.0-rel were the latest releases you could install I might also add that there are probably quite a few of us who've always been using scsi cdroms, also to keep the machine ide-free... and that pc bioses often have extreme trouble booting from scsi cdroms, if at all (I've never seen a PC myself where this worked), so the only option is floppies, or netboot. -- Matthias Buelow home: mkb/at/mukappabeta.de uni: mkb/at/informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de