From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 07:56:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D2516A4CE; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:56:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDBB43D45; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:56:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i08FuRHV075667; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:56:27 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost)i08FuMqt075662; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:56:26 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:56:22 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "Matthew D. Fuller" In-Reply-To: <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> Message-ID: <20040108175523.P32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:56:30 -0000 On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of > Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this > > CD format, please take in to account: > > And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even > if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to > install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the > LAN from a local FTP mirror, which is as fast as a CD drive anyway. Which would obviously mean that there would be lots of volunteers for the position of floppy maintainer? > > -- > Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net > Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ > > "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I > haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" >