From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 5 12:38:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 890FB37B406 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:38:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC8A843E8A for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:38:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0104.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.104] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 189AT6-00002W-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:38:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC82C00.678359A8@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:37:20 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, "Thyer, Matthew" Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) References: <108E7D907871D6118B5000306E0189F85759A2@ednex504.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20021105002107.GA48239@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021105083559.B5083@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3DC77F65.727CCDA8@mindspring.com> <20021105141730.D5968@freebie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > As long as a miniiso is available ********************************* > > My DEC labelled Alpha box has a floppy drive, but doesn't > > have a CDROM drive, unless I hook my own to the SCSI connector. > > > why bother with floppies? ************************ > > All of the SRM updates I have are on floppy. > > SRM != an OS. No, but they're a good reason to bother with floppies. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message