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From: Pete French <petefrench@keithprowse.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:52:23 +0000
Subject: Re: Fix make release for 4-STABLE
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> It's pretty obvious that within a couple more years they will be 
> completely replaced by CD-R media or similar things. So, having to use 

You are assuming that you can boot from the CD-ROM, which isnt true
on any of the machines I own for starters. Floppies are still very
useful as a bootstapping tool - even Windows XP does it this way
after all. It may take 6 floppies, but it enables you to get the OS
onto a machine with just a boot floppy.

-pcf.