Floppy Support

[The Anarcat]

On Sun May 04, 2003 at 09:29:36AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote:
> Are you saying that you would be honestly upset or at a serious 
> disadvantage if 4.8/5.0-rel were the latest releases you could install 
> from floppies and that if you wanted a more recent FreeBSD on your 1996 
> hardware, you'd have to install 4.8 or 5 first and upgrade your way up?

I know I would be upset.

Why does everyone keep on trying to ditch the old hardware? It still
works, doesn't it? It's still useful, isn't it?

So what if it it's pre-'95? Are we so "hip" that we need to drop support
for everything older that 7 years?

I despise the habit of the computer industry of deprecating perfectly
valid hardware in order to make sales.

We don't have to follow such trends.

I think you are mixing two problems: the CDROM boot and the FLOPPY boot.
Those can be 2 totally different issues if we need to. Fix the CDROM
boot to allow fatty kernels for your exotic hardware. But don't break
the floppy boot, a lot of less fortunate folks need it.

Not everyone can afford fresh new hardware.

A.
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