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Date:      Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:17:38 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Subject:   Re: Floppies for ALPHA
Message-ID:  <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org>
References:  <200307211915.h6LJFPJY054212@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030721214042.GA563@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:58:46PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
[...]
> This is a loosing fight.  While there is still some value in having
> floppies for x86, is there really any value in them for Alpha?  My
> understanding is that CD-ROMs have been standard on all Alphas for
> the past 5-10 years.  Netbooting is an easy alternative for those
> 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.
>=20
I plan on working on removing floppy support for AMD64 now.
Not that we support installing from floppies on AMD64 now, no,
this is rather a tidying up of release/Makefile and other
infrastructure.

After that, it will be trivial to axe the floppy support for
Alpha too.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

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