From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 08:42:33 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 DDC0616A4CE; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:42:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C5843D54; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:42:32 -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 1AedEt-000G2A-04; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:42:31 +0000 Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1AedEr-000MVF-1M; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:42:29 +0000 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:42:29 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Scott Long , hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040108164228.GS8322@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Scott Long , hackers@freebsd.org References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108163647.GR8322@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="//h4sZKAxcnndsN6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040108163647.GR8322@submonkey.net> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies 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 16:42:34 -0000 --//h4sZKAxcnndsN6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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, > >=20 > > Every FreeBSD release cycle in the past year has hit bumps due to insta= ll > > 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 --//h4sZKAxcnndsN6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE//Yh0ocfcwTS3JF8RAppGAJ9+ryNvknkTBrSBqJoX/VSOSRDaoACcDGXk IO70VmykLiQqMoUmSkFBRaU= =mBKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --//h4sZKAxcnndsN6--