From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 18:58:17 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 CDC0F16A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB3043F93 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:58:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bfoz@terrandev.com) Received: from terrandev.com (12-234-26-98.client.attbi.com[12.234.26.98]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <2003103102581001600s9ge3e> (Authid: bfoz); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 02:58:14 +0000 Message-ID: <3FA1CFBB.3040906@terrandev.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:58:03 -0800 From: Brandon Fosdick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030923 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Willcox References: <3FA0B460.7090008@freebsd.org> <200310301808.h9UI8qaZ000347@ice.nodomain> <20031030181318.GA97591@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <20031030181318.GA97591@luke.immure.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Dan Strick cc: dan@ice.nodomain 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: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 02:58:17 -0000 Bob Willcox wrote: > Seems that they should be able to create the floppy disks and boot from > them still. Not ideal, but should work. Floppies are an endangered species. At work we just bought a large number (thousands) of new machines and not a single one came with a floppy drive. Now that I think of it, neither of my home machines has a floppy either. Although I do have one drive sitting on the shelf, just in case. -- Brandon Fosdick http://www.terranspace.org