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

[Avleen Vig]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:56:22PM +0200, Narvi wrote:
> > And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even
> > if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to
> > install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the
> > LAN from a local FTP mirror, which is as fast as a CD drive anyway.
> 
> Which would obviously mean that there would be lots of volunteers for the
> position of floppy maintainer?

How you made the jump from "I don't want to buy a CD burner to install
FreeBSD" to "I will be a floppy maintainer" I'm not sure. :-)