Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:39:30 -0700 From: Jon Mini <mini@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha drivers.conf Message-ID: <20030515033930.GD20512@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030514233000.14706M-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20030515014303.GA53992@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030514233000.14706M-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson [rwatson@FreeBSD.org] wrote : > I think they'll be needed for i386 for a while yet, but when it comes to > the newer 64-bit platforms, I tend to agree. I don't even know if you can > buy a sparc64 box with a floppy drive at this point... It's hard for > me to imagine anyone shipping an ia64 or amd64 machine with a floppy > disk drive but without a bootable CDROM... The last time I used a boot floppy was over a year ago when I had made some changes to the boot code and needed to make sure it still worked for floppies. I can see the argument for supporting floppies on i386, but future platforms don't require it. I think that these days it is harder to find a floppy than a blank CDR, but then maybe that's because I have an Apple laptop. -- Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/
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