cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fdc fdc.c

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Thu Jul 13 07:51:07 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 12 July 2006 22:15, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > Not really relevant, but who cares about floppy in 2006 when one can buy
> > 256MB USB flash for the price of the pack of floppies? ;-)
> >
> > No offense intended, just curious.
>
> Just because one might not choose to use floppies for new systems doesn't
> mean that old deployed systems involving flopies don't still exist and need
> to work (and keep on working).

Also, sysinstall won't read install.cfg off anything but a floppy..

It would be nice if it groked USB sticks but I'm not sure how feasible that 
would be :)

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