From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 23:14: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB50037B424 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 23:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from butthead.powercom ([24.177.2.144]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20000827061341.DSDL12759.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@butthead.powercom>; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 23:13:41 -0700 From: Caleb Walker To: Greg Lehey , Gary W Olson Subject: Re: Making boot floppies (was: BSD Powerpak 4.0) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 23:12:24 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <39A7FDF3.F927A52C@frontiernet.net> <20000827095438.A29986@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000827095438.A29986@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00082623133700.12082@butthead.powercom> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > I haven't seen any Linux distributions with floppies. I'm sure they > exist, but the ones I've received all come only with CDs. Nowadays > most computers can boot directly from the CD-ROM, and that's so much > easier than using obsolete technology like floppies. > > > Quite frankly, creating the floppies have been such an unsuccessful > > problem that I am considering abandoning BSD. > > Quite frankly, if that's such a problem, you should abandon BSD. It > won't be the last problem of that magnitude that you'll experience. WELL PUT GREG! I APPLAUD THAT! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: KuVI/RoyHV6LoDQsrCreTW29JubIYWJ+ iQA/AwUBOaixleePhvvqImYFEQL2kACghUJ2aVNOfQ5B4FX9503H547ZkWgAoLIh 396OlUlJ6JMbQKiOoLpuhZO2 =W9A6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message