Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:20:53 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, "Thyer, Matthew" <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <3DC77F65.727CCDA8@mindspring.com> References: <108E7D907871D6118B5000306E0189F85759A2@ednex504.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20021105002107.GA48239@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021105083559.B5083@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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