From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 8 22:28:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5F137B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2594343E6E for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:28:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g795SJo90890; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:28:19 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200208090528.g795SJo90890@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: 3 floppy system for -current releases In-Reply-To: <3D5348FD.24AB721F@mindspring.com> from Terry Lambert at "Aug 8, 2002 09:45:49 pm" To: tlambert2@mindspring.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:28:19 +0200 (SAT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Terry, > > Why?? I disagree. CD9600 can go to the 3rd floppy -- if I am installing > > from floppy's I am 99.9% chance doing a network install. > > I have an idea... > > If you only support installing via whatever option wins a vote > as The One True Way, then there'll be a 100% chance that that's > the way that people will install because that will be the only > way that works. > > ... > > Is there a particularly good reason people should rip code out, > and thereby limit FreeBSD's potential market? > Calm down and relax. Which part of my patch removed support for anything that might be needed during the install? ... Well thinking about it again, you just might have something there. It is not as if M$ give you many options of how you want to install and still people are buying Windows at a high enough rate that Bill is pretty rich..... :-) John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message