Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer

From: TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:10:45 +0900 (JST)
In article <4D6E6C43.4010101_at_freebsd.org>
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn_at_freebsd.org> writes:

>> Do you have a plan to add a floppy support as boot device?  Pc98
>> machines which can boot from CD-ROM are very limited.  So we usually
>> use FD for boot media to install.
> 
> No, I hadn't thought about this. If there aren't any machines you care
> about that don't have a CD drive at all, we could try a
> CD-bootloader-on-a-floppy as a solution. I think a totally floppy
> based install would be very difficult to arrange, however.

The boot-only-floppy image is very useful for us.

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TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan_at_FreeBSD.org>
Received on Thu Mar 03 2011 - 08:10:50 UTC

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