misc/141851: Missing installation floppies for 8.0-RELEASE

[linimon at FreeBSD.org]

Synopsis: Missing installation floppies for 8.0-RELEASE

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: linimon
State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 22 17:14:42 UTC 2009
State-Changed-Why: 
We have decided to desupport the floppy builds starting with the 8.0
release.  The problem is that it was getting harder and harder to keep
the boot image less than the size of a floppy disk.  Since most modern
machines have either a CD drive, a USB interface, or both, it seemed
like too much effort for too little gain.

You can still build a floppy image by make -D MAKE_FLOPPIES release
in the release directory.

The commit in question:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/Makefile
Revision 1.939: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs
Tue Feb 10 15:03:08 2009 UTC (10 months, 1 week ago) by kensmith

mcl


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->linimon
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Dec 22 17:14:42 UTC 2009
Responsible-Changed-Why: 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141851