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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:20:53 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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	"Thyer, Matthew" <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd)
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Wilko Bulte wrote:
> Or alternatively: get over it. DEC never intended to install any OS on an
> Alpha from floppy. In the dim dark past of Alpha a decision was made
> to use CDROMs for that.
> 
> As long as a miniiso (or maybe a microiso if you wanted to optimise it
> further) is available why bother with floppies?

Yet... my DEC labelled Alpha box has a floppy drive, but doesn't
have a CDROM drive, unless I hook my own to the SCSI connector...

And all the Linux Alpha distributions I have have a boot floppy,
and all of the SRM updates I have are on floppy.

-- Terry

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