Re: Floppy Support

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> From: Duraid Madina <duraid_at_octopus.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Floppy Support

> Are you saying that you would be honestly upset or at a serious
> disadvantage if 4.8/5.0-rel were the latest releases you could
> install from floppies and that if you wanted a more recent
> FreeBSD on your 1996 hardware, you'd have to install 4.8 or 5
> first and upgrade your way up?

Well I'd hate to have to replace my 2000/2001 Inter 1100R
1RU rackmount servers we use in the cololations facility.
P3's surely aren't 1996 hardware.  No reason to have to put a space
hogging CD-ROM in something where it would only be used for
install.  I can boot from floppy and install from ftp in a short
time since the machines are on 1GB links into a 10GB global
network.   Space is at a premium considering how much it costs to
rent a rack.

The 2RU servers do have CD-ROMS in them - and I'd surely like not
to have to put in PXE cards to be able to load the 1RUs from the
2RUs..


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