Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:24:09 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <xzpfzeoke86.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040109211926.GR25474@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> (Peter Jeremy's message of "Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:19:26 %2B1100") References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108075059.GK53429@silverwraith.com> <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> <20040108095207.GA52153@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <20040109211926.GR25474@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes: > Keep in mind that older systems probably won't boot over the network > without a netboot ROM or similar. The netboot ROM images are (or > were) in the distribution but aren't much use without an EPROM > burner. I believe that in most cases you can dd the ROM image to a floppy and boot from it. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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