Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:17:38 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org> References: <200307211915.h6LJFPJY054212@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030721214042.GA563@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org>
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--1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:58:46PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: [...] > This is a loosing fight. While there is still some value in having > floppies for x86, is there really any value in them for Alpha? My > understanding is that CD-ROMs have been standard on all Alphas for > the past 5-10 years. Netbooting is an easy alternative for those > without CDs or bandwidth. We do not do floppies for sparc64 and ia64, > and I would hope/expect that we don't do them for amd64. I think it's > time to cut them out of Alpha. >=20 I plan on working on removing floppy support for AMD64 now. Not that we support installing from floppies on AMD64 now, no, this is rather a tidying up of release/Makefile and other infrastructure. After that, it will be trivial to axe the floppy support for Alpha too. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE/HPMiUkv4P6juNwoRAouzAJUTLay7UKslmsx9w46Neq04jasHAJ9LotiV K4CyS0Pii/jTp/CNN1F6QQ== =/s24 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG--
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