Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 15:09:19 -0700 From: "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net> To: Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <200305031509.19473.cbiffle@safety.net> In-Reply-To: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au>
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On Saturday 03 May 2003 06:16 am, Duraid Madina wrote: > Can anyone give a *good* reason why floppies should still be supported > from this point onwards? 1. El Torito. Last I checked, under emulation, 2.88MB was the largest boot image available, so fitting the bootloader/kernel/etc. onto two floppies is still quite significant. I've only run across one machine that could competently handle non-emulated CD booting. 2. Servers without CDROM drives. As another poster mentioned, 1U rack or clustering servers frequently don't have CDROMs. I know mine don't. I'm still confused as to why the $CVS$ tags are going into the kernel on the floppies, but that strikes me as minor. :-) -Cliff L. Biffle
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