FreeBSD Release 8.0 floppy images

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi,
Mark Linimon wrote:
> You can still build them.  They just won't be built by default.

Trying that now on 8.0-RELEASE amd64 Thanks.


Ken Smith wrote:

> building them now
> fails due to another of the handful of reasons we wanted
> to abandon floppies
> ...
> the 'livefs'
> one can't and it recently started overflowing.

I hope that's stable or current & not 8.0-RELEASE.


> Those reasons combined with the fact I can't even test
> them any more all combined to convince the developer
> community 8.0 was a reasonable point to let floppy
> support fall by the wayside.

Thanks for the reply.
Understandable that developers hosts have lost interest in floppies.
But a lot of old servers & laptops used as spare terminas etc may
have floppy & ether but no cdrom or USB, inc eg this laptop running 7.2:
	http://www.berklix.org/~jhs/hardware/laptops/dell_latitude_xpi_p133st/

I suspect people who live near you may sometime offer to drop off
a spare old PC with a floppy ;-)

Cheers,
Julian
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