Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:37:06 -0800 From: "Leland" <lsp3@gte.net> To: "Bob Willcox" <bob@immure.com>, "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@terrandev.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 is now available Message-ID: <002901c39fff$84bc0fa0$0201a8c0@Pentium166> References: <3FA0B460.7090008@freebsd.org><200310301808.h9UI8qaZ000347@ice.nodomain><20031030181318.GA97591@luke.immure.com> <3FA1CFBB.3040906@terrandev.com> <20031031042113.GA9280@luke.immure.com>
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> > 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. > > Well, considering how cheap they are, I always include a floppy drive > in my systems for the same reason. Though I must admit that I find that > I have to boot MSDOS to update MB BIOSes more often than anything with > them. :-) > > Bob My current systems lack a CD ROM as I use the space in a 1U for another drive. I FTP from a local system and the hard drives seems to work faster without a CD. Leland
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