Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:56:22 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040108175523.P32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of > Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this > > CD format, please take in to account: > > And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even > if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to > install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the > LAN from a local FTP mirror, which is as fast as a CD drive anyway. Which would obviously mean that there would be lots of volunteers for the position of floppy maintainer? > > -- > Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net > Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ > > "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I > haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" >
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