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. BiffleReceived on Sat May 03 2003 - 13:08:10 UTC
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