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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.

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TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org>