Floppies for ALPHA

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:58:46PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
[...]
> This is a loosing fight.  While there is still some value in having
> floppies for x86, is there really any value in them for Alpha?  My
> understanding is that CD-ROMs have been standard on all Alphas for
> the past 5-10 years.  Netbooting is an easy alternative for those
> without CDs or bandwidth.  We do not do floppies for sparc64 and ia64,
> and I would hope/expect that we don't do them for amd64.  I think it's
> time to cut them out of Alpha.
> 
I plan on working on removing floppy support for AMD64 now.
Not that we support installing from floppies on AMD64 now, no,
this is rather a tidying up of release/Makefile and other
infrastructure.

After that, it will be trivial to axe the floppy support for
Alpha too.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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