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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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"Cliff L. Biffle" wrote:
> On Saturday 03 May 2003 06:16 am, Duraid Madina wrote:
> > Can anyone give a *good* reason why floppies should still be supported
> > from this point onwards?
> 
> 2. Servers without CDROM drives.  As another poster mentioned, 1U rack or
> clustering servers frequently don't have CDROMs.  I know mine don't.

Speaking of which... it would be nice if sysinstall was available
as a binary on the CDROM for use in NFS upgrades from CDROM...

-- Terry