From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 7 21:59:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496CE106566B for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:59:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walt@wump.org) Received: from mta31.charter.net (mta31.charter.net [216.33.127.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69838FC14 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imp11 ([10.20.200.11]) by mta31.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.09.02.04 201-2219-117-106-20090629) with ESMTP id <20100307215909.JAWJ1847.mta31.charter.net@imp11> for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:59:09 -0500 Received: from [10.0.0.10] ([68.116.98.9]) by imp11 with smtp.charter.net id qMz41d0070C8vLc05Mz6bK; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:59:09 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=ebNzH6DdAAAA:8 a=fxSBvyXH6ym9THtPd8sA:9 a=18V-pgIbqXAOxwNNiDOpgsKxIMYA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=Z-IikAJXHoYA:10 a=zbkDLoAsQ4cA:10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <799211.14657.qm@web65514.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 13:58:07 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Walt Pawley Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: freebsd install from floppy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:59:11 -0000 At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: >While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the >like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy >drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy a new machine with a >floppy drive-- they don't sell them anymore, either... I certainly can't argue that modern machines typically have floppy drives ... even if the motherboard supports one. So what? Not everyone in the world throws their three year old computer in the trash so they can stay "up to date." I, for one, find it very annoying that new versions of software which once worked just fine on equipment I still use every day no longer work in their current incarnations. Delving into several such cases, I've found comments to the effect that functions are removed because no one uses the old stuff (ie. three years old) any more. -- Walter M. Pawley Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97471 541-672-8975