AMD64 boot floppies

[Martin Cracauer]

Scott Long wrote on Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:54:39AM -0700: 
> Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:00:49PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > 
> >>On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:34:50AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Friday 30 December 2005 08:05 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:45:57PM +0100, Andrea Brancatelli wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>For i386 we have
> >>>>>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-RELEASE/floppies/
> >>>>>but for Amd64 there's no
> >>>>>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/6.0-RELEASE/floppies/
> >>>>>
> >>>>>How can I get installation floppies for 6.0 / amd64?
> >>>>
> >>>>http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/installation-amd64.html#FLOPPIES
> >>>
> >>>FYI, it would be trivial to support with the splitfs stuff now.  You'd
> >>>basically just need to copy over the variables from i386 to set the
> >>>sizes, etc.
> >>
> >>please, Please, PLEASE no... why add the pain of floppies to the release
> >>mix when no one in their right mind as an AMD64 machine that has a floppy
> >>drive AND doesn't have a CDROM (or DVD) drive.
> > 
> > 
> > But I guess, the are many AMD64 machines that don't have a CDROM- or
> > DVD- burner build in. For these machines a few floppy images to start a
> > network installation would be helpful.
> > 
> 
> My impression was the floppy drives are disappearing from servers faster
> than CDROM drives are. 

For my new Supermicro board they only deliver BIOS updates in a floppy
kit.  At least SM seems to be committed to some floppability in the
near future.

For the rackmounts we have in the office there is neither floppy nor
CD-ROM.  Oh well.

Martin
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