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Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x
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On Monday 12 January 2004 07:22 am, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> >
> > I don't know the release build process, so I don't know how much
> > effort is neccessary to create such floppies, but the loader seems to
> > have all features needed to use such disks.
>
> It sounds like this is definatly a viable option.  Now someone needs to
> see about hacking something like this into the release makefiles.

Note that I didn't say it would be a lot of work. ;^)

Do we have a volunteer showing up here?

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Wes Peters                                               wes@softweyr.com