From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 3 19:35:54 2003 Return-Path: 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 AE07C37B401 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 19:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E135943F3F for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 19:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h442ZEm2025000; Sat, 3 May 2003 19:35:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h442ZCqX024999; Sat, 3 May 2003 19:35:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 19:35:12 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Duraid Madina Message-ID: <20030504023512.GA24882@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <200305031817.16068.bsdterm@HotPOP.com> <3EB450E0.9060702@octopus.com.au> <20030503235911.GA64288@shall.anarcat.ath.cx> <3EB45D98.50106@octopus.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EB45D98.50106@octopus.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: bsdterm@HotPOP.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 02:35:55 -0000 On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 10:23:52AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote: > The Anarcat wrote: > > >Why does everyone keep on trying to ditch the old hardware? It still > >works, doesn't it? It's still useful, isn't it? > > The fact that FreeBSD insists on fitting its kernel onto floppies has so > far prevented me from installing it on my not terribly new hardware. How has FreeBSD prevented you from installing because we fit the kernel on floppies? > You could easily extend that argument to say that Intel's efforts to > make EFI booting more widespread are a bad thing. So here we have a > company like Intel trying to make sales by making your future PC less > broken than your current one, and yet you'll no doubt chant "but my BIOS > works just fine. Why should I be forced to buy a new motherboard just to > install FreeBSD 6.3??" Don't worry that won't happen -- AMD has committed to the current type of BIOS and plans to NOT switch to EFI. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)