From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 10:37:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C555D16A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:37:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx05.covadmail.net [63.65.120.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F69843FE0 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:37:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 28642 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2003 18:37:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ice.nodomain) (67.101.98.159) by sun-qmail18 with SMTP; 30 Oct 2003 18:37:01 -0000 Received: from ice.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9UIb6mk000421; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:37:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@ice.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h9UIb6Gj000420; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:37:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:37:06 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <200310301837.h9UIb6Gj000420@ice.nodomain> To: bob@immure.com In-Reply-To: <20031030181318.GA97591@luke.immure.com> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 is now available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:37:12 -0000 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003, Bob Willcox wrote: > > Seems that they should be able to create the floppy disks and boot from > them still. Not ideal, but should work. That is exactly what I did, but people who do not have access to running machines with CD-ROM drives would have more difficulty. This would not be an insurmountable problem but it would certainly be very inconvenient. (Remember when Win95 first came out?) Dan Strick strick@covad.net