Floppy Support

[Cliff L. Biffle]

On Saturday 03 May 2003 06:16 am, Duraid Madina wrote:
> Can anyone give a *good* reason why floppies should still be supported
> from this point onwards?

1. El Torito.  Last I checked, under emulation, 2.88MB was the largest boot 
image available, so fitting the bootloader/kernel/etc. onto two floppies is 
still quite significant.  I've only run across one machine that could 
competently handle non-emulated CD booting.
2. Servers without CDROM drives.  As another poster mentioned, 1U rack or 
clustering servers frequently don't have CDROMs.  I know mine don't.

I'm still confused as to why the $CVS$ tags are going into the kernel on the 
floppies, but that strikes me as minor. :-)

-Cliff L. Biffle