Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:57:03 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 boot floppies Message-ID: <200601041657.k04Gv3wq007451@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Message from Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> of "Wed, 04 Jan 2006 07:59:08 PST." <20060104075019.W36259@roble.com>
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Roger Marquis wrote: > Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > When I upgraded my old Celeron box a year ago, I had to buy a CDROM > > burner, so that I could burn the install CD for my new machine. Since > > than it is sitting idle in its slot. > > You could also have purchased a USB-CD-RW or USB-DVD-RW. > > The problem with floppies is their A) tendency to develop bad > sectors, and B) increasing rarity. The lines of code needed for a > boot floppy would be much better spent on other bootable media, > Flash, DVD, etc, all of which would have larger and more > appreciative audiences. A) Yes. B) No. Not `larger audience' unless one only counts developers & installers buying / using latest mboards, & excludes vast user base of running kit, eg very few if any of my ~20+ varied i386 arch. systems of all ages have BIOS support for USB boot. -- Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, HTML=spam. Ihr Rauch = meine allergischen Kopfschmerzen.
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