Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:42:29 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040108164228.GS8322@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20040108163647.GR8322@submonkey.net> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108163647.GR8322@submonkey.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:36:47PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:35:01AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > All, > > > > 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. Actually, I'd like to go one further and suggest that we do this anyway. Ceri -- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE//Yh0ocfcwTS3JF8RAppGAJ9+ryNvknkTBrSBqJoX/VSOSRDaoACcDGXk IO70VmykLiQqMoUmSkFBRaU= =mBKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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