i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH

Doug Barton DougB at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 26 16:19:02 PDT 2003


On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> People still use 1.44MB floppies?  I don't
> even have floppy drives in my PCs anymore.

The problem isn't as simple as that. The El Torrito stuff still depends on
having working floppy images. And there are a lot of systems (mine
included) that don't boot with the new hard disk imaging boot standard.
The floppy images need to work, even if they aren't installed on real
floppy disks.

Doug

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