From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 20:21:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F9E16A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (pimout1-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E197A43FBF for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:21:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from maul.immure.com (adsl-66-136-206-1.dsl.austtx.swbell.net [66.136.206.1])h9V4LF4Z188848; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:21:15 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by maul.immure.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) id h9V4LFXx003887; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:21:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [10.1.132.3]) by maul.immure.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h9V4LEhB003862; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:21:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luke.immure.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9V4LEIR009323; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:21:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id h9V4LDlq009322; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:21:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:21:13 -0600 From: Bob Willcox To: Brandon Fosdick Message-ID: <20031031042113.GA9280@luke.immure.com> References: <3FA0B460.7090008@freebsd.org> <200310301808.h9UI8qaZ000347@ice.nodomain> <20031030181318.GA97591@luke.immure.com> <3FA1CFBB.3040906@terrandev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FA1CFBB.3040906@terrandev.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 on maul.immure.com cc: Dan Strick cc: dan@ice.nodomain cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 is now available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bob Willcox List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 04:21:18 -0000 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:58:03PM -0800, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Bob Willcox wrote: > >Seems that they should be able to create the floppy disks and boot from > >them still. Not ideal, but should work. > > Floppies are an endangered species. At work we just bought a large > number (thousands) of new machines and not a single one came with a > floppy drive. Now that I think of it, neither of my home machines has a > floppy either. Although I do have one drive sitting on the shelf, just > in case. Well, considering how cheap they are, I always include a floppy drive in my systems for the same reason. Though I must admit that I find that I have to boot MSDOS to update MB BIOSes more often than anything with them. :-) Bob -- Bob Willcox If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, bob@immure.com I guess you do have a problem. Austin, TX -- Richard Bach, "Illusions"