Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 08 January 2004 11:36 am, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:35:01AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Every FreeBSD release cycle in the past year has hit bumps due to install
> > floppy problems.  This is becoming more and more of a burden on the
> > Release Engineering Team, as we simply do not have the resources to
> > constantly battle the floppies.
>
> Floppies can go as far as I'm concerned, with the one proviso that we
> start shipping a /boot.config containing '-P'.  Without floppies, the
> only ways to do a headless install are PXE and cutting your own release
> with that /boot.config in place, and not all machines can do PXE.

-P breaks machines with USB keyboards because it doesn't use a very smary 
keyboard probe check.  That's why it was turned off in the first place.

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