From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 16:36:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2B51065673 for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 16:36:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAD88FC1B for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 16:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A5DA3.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.93.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o4AGaNlL085840; Mon, 10 May 2010 16:36:23 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4AGaC3Z062793; Mon, 10 May 2010 18:36:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4AGa2pF053050; Mon, 10 May 2010 18:36:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201005101636.o4AGa2pF053050@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Royce Williams From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Mon, 10 May 2010 07:01:59 -0800." Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:36:02 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, kensmith@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Release 8.0 floppy images X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:36:26 -0000 > > As for floppies building, it was turned off intentionally starting from 8.0. > > See http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=188437 I looked earlier at URL above earlier, but just kensmith (CC added) Log Message: Turn off the building of boot floppies for amd64/i386. No reason in there, why or URL pointer to a list discussion. > I'm guessing that this because of resource constraints (getting > everything to fit)? I assume that if it was just that folks weren't > using them, it would be easy to keep them. A few data points: Seconded. Ken, I'd suggest it would be good to commit & post a comment why removed. It will later affect rescue capability of some older servers when they get upgraded, (I guess many/most legacy production servers still are 7.*, at least till 8.1 comes out). Thanks Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text, Not HTML quoted-printable Base64 http://www.asciiribbon.org