From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 09:24:52 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 D1CE016A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:24:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pear.silverwraith.com (66-214-182-79.la-cbi.charterpipeline.net [66.214.182.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54CB043D54 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:24:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com) Received: from avleen by pear.silverwraith.com with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1Aedtq-000FY1-4o; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:24:50 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:24:49 -0800 From: Avleen Vig To: Narvi Message-ID: <20040108172449.GE53429@silverwraith.com> References: <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> <20040108175523.P32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040108175523.P32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i 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 17:24:52 -0000 On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:56:22PM +0200, Narvi wrote: > > 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? How you made the jump from "I don't want to buy a CD burner to install FreeBSD" to "I will be a floppy maintainer" I'm not sure. :-)