From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 17:24:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425CE37B423 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 17:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA75020; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 09:54:38 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 09:54:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Gary W Olson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Making boot floppies (was: BSD Powerpak 4.0) Message-ID: <20000827095438.A29986@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <39A7FDF3.F927A52C@frontiernet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39A7FDF3.F927A52C@frontiernet.net>; from polsong@frontiernet.net on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 12:27:15PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 26 August 2000 at 12:27:15 -0500, Gary W Olson wrote: > Why aren't the boot floppies included in the package like Linux > distributions have? I haven't seen any Linux distributions with floppies. I'm sure they exist, but the ones I've received all come only with CDs. Nowadays most computers can boot directly from the CD-ROM, and that's so much easier than using obsolete technology like floppies. > Quite frankly, creating the floppies have been such an unsuccessful > problem that I am considering abandoning BSD. Quite frankly, if that's such a problem, you should abandon BSD. It won't be the last problem of that magnitude that you'll experience. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message