From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 08:36:54 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 C753716A4CE; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:36:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D703343D48; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:36:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com ([81.103.67.204] helo=shrike.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by shaft.techsupport.co.uk with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1Aed9N-000G1i-Lh; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:36:49 +0000 Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1Aed9L-000MSV-SL; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:36:47 +0000 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:36:47 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20040108163647.GR8322@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Scott Long , hackers@freebsd.org References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="By57YlnFViWR/M0S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: hackers@freebsd.org 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 16:36:54 -0000 --By57YlnFViWR/M0S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:35:01AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > All, >=20 > Every FreeBSD release cycle in the past year has hit bumps due to install > floppy problems. This is becoming more and more of a burden on the > Release Engineering Team, as we simply do not have the resources to > constantly battle the floppies. Floppies can go as far as I'm concerned, with the one proviso that we start shipping a /boot.config containing '-P'. Without floppies, the only ways to do a headless install are PXE and cutting your own release with that /boot.config in place, and not all machines can do PXE. Ceri --=20 --By57YlnFViWR/M0S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE//YcfocfcwTS3JF8RAlmCAJ0b9GSxRCvpK/X2ZOgN0V3enqV5jgCgrTUv zCesjcV2qM5c0DQjr7DUXmw= =b/0Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --By57YlnFViWR/M0S--