Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:36:02 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Royce Williams <royce.williams@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, kensmith@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Release 8.0 floppy images Message-ID: <201005101636.o4AGa2pF053050@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 10 May 2010 07:01:59 -0800." <AANLkTik6doAxy_pBUkAAWnajnn7KgnZkcpx2Y6txtEsR@mail.gmail.com>
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> > 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
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