Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:22:35 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA [Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.alpha src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC NOTES] Message-ID: <20030722002235.GA23390@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030721220419.GA909@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200307211915.h6LJFPJY054212@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030721214042.GA563@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org> <20030721220419.GA909@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:04:19AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > without CDs or bandwidth. We do not do floppies for sparc64 and ia64, > > and I would hope/expect that we don't do them for amd64. I think it's > > time to cut them out of Alpha. > > Absolutely. But everytime we planned on doing that there was uproar. There has never been an uproar in "modern times" about removing floppy install support for Alpha. The only uproar the last time this came up (during the 5.1 release cycle), the nay sayers did not read carefully and thought x86 was included in the discussion. Sorry, there is RU who wants to keep them for "fun" it seems. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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