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Date:      Wed, 5 Aug 1998 11:58:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be>
Cc:        Chris Hill <jchill@dgsys.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Install *actually* friendly
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808051149260.4693-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980805012506.18941B-100000@ns.double-barrel.be>

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On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Michael C. Vergallen wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Chris Hill wrote:
>
> > drive much if at all, still, it *is* there. I would have liked not to have
> > had to manually edit my /etc/fstab just to be able to use my floppy drive.
> 
> No .. I would not like to see this happen for the simple reason that I see
> that most poeple disable the floppy in bios when done installing the
> system.

Really?  There are lots of valid reasons for disabling the floppy
drive, but I seriously doubt you can support the claim that most
people actually do it.  Sounds like a typical case of projecting
your own practices as normal behavior for everyone.

"Most" is a pretty vague criteria anyway.

-john


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