Floppy Support

[Peter Schultz]

The Anarcat wrote:
> Do we need to go over this again?
> 
> There *are* machines out there without CDROM and there's surely a lot
> of BIOS out there that can't boot from the CDROM.
> 
Okay.  I also saw Doug Barton's comment on the floppy images needing to 
work.

> Also, I like the idea of grabbing a 1.44MB file, writing it to a
> floppy and doing a network install of the necessary bits instead of
> downloading the whole ISO.
> 
> Much more bandwidth friendly for our non-broadband friends out there.
> 
I agree with you 100%.  The floppy install is great, it is the install
floppies that are not.

> Please, let the dead horse alone.
> 

This problem is by no means dead, if it were I'd be able to download the 
latest JPSNAP flops, AND USE THEM.  I would have never brought this up, 
now would I.

I know that it is not an impossible problem to solve.  What about having 
a more broken down set of floppies to choose from?  A plus would be that 
people may well not need the drivers.flp because they can choose a 
kern.flp more fitting to their system.

Pete...