Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:10:45 +0900 (JST) From: TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org> To: nwhitehorn@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer Message-ID: <20110303.181045.59640143227211744.nyan@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4D6E6C43.4010101@freebsd.org> References: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> <20110303.010628.59640143160060699.nyan@FreeBSD.org> <4D6E6C43.4010101@freebsd.org>
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In article <4D6E6C43.4010101@freebsd.org> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> writes: >> Do you have a plan to add a floppy support as boot device? Pc98 >> machines which can boot from CD-ROM are very limited. So we usually >> use FD for boot media to install. > > No, I hadn't thought about this. If there aren't any machines you care > about that don't have a CD drive at all, we could try a > CD-bootloader-on-a-floppy as a solution. I think a totally floppy > based install would be very difficult to arrange, however. The boot-only-floppy image is very useful for us. --- TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org>
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