Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:38:31 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <200401081538.31854.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040108163647.GR8322@submonkey.net> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108163647.GR8322@submonkey.net>
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On Thursday 08 January 2004 11:36 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:35:01AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > All, > > > > Every FreeBSD release cycle in the past year has hit bumps due to install > > floppy problems. This is becoming more and more of a burden on the > > Release Engineering Team, as we simply do not have the resources to > > constantly battle the floppies. > > Floppies can go as far as I'm concerned, with the one proviso that we > start shipping a /boot.config containing '-P'. Without floppies, the > only ways to do a headless install are PXE and cutting your own release > with that /boot.config in place, and not all machines can do PXE. -P breaks machines with USB keyboards because it doesn't use a very smary keyboard probe check. That's why it was turned off in the first place. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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