Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:28:54 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru> To: Pete French <petefrench@keithprowse.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fix make release for 4-STABLE Message-ID: <20040120122613.W32377@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> In-Reply-To: <E1AiXx9-0000eU-Vj@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E1AiXx9-0000eU-Vj@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Pete French wrote:
>> It's pretty obvious that within a couple more years they will be
>> completely replaced by CD-R media or similar things. So, having to use
>
>You are assuming that you can boot from the CD-ROM, which isnt true
>on any of the machines I own for starters. Floppies are still very
>useful as a bootstapping tool - even Windows XP does it this way
>after all. It may take 6 floppies, but it enables you to get the OS
>onto a machine with just a boot floppy.
>
>-pcf.
But you need "other" media to install OS from... :-)
The time of floppy is going away. It's too expensive now. It's not
so much durable.
Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek
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