Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:20:26 GMT From: linimon@FreeBSD.org To: mickey242@gmx.net, linimon@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, linimon@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/141851: Missing installation floppies for 8.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <200912221720.nBMHKQFT010414@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: Missing installation floppies for 8.0-RELEASE State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: linimon State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 22 17:14:42 UTC 2009 State-Changed-Why: We have decided to desupport the floppy builds starting with the 8.0 release. The problem is that it was getting harder and harder to keep the boot image less than the size of a floppy disk. Since most modern machines have either a CD drive, a USB interface, or both, it seemed like too much effort for too little gain. You can still build a floppy image by make -D MAKE_FLOPPIES release in the release directory. The commit in question: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/Makefile Revision 1.939: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs Tue Feb 10 15:03:08 2009 UTC (10 months, 1 week ago) by kensmith mcl Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->linimon Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Dec 22 17:14:42 UTC 2009 Responsible-Changed-Why: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141851
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