Floppy Support

[David O'Brien]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 10:23:52AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote:
> The Anarcat wrote:
> 
> >Why does everyone keep on trying to ditch the old hardware? It still
> >works, doesn't it? It's still useful, isn't it?
> 
> The fact that FreeBSD insists on fitting its kernel onto floppies has so 
> far prevented me from installing it on my not terribly new hardware.

How has FreeBSD prevented you from installing because we fit the kernel
on floppies?


> You could easily extend that argument to say that Intel's efforts to 
> make EFI booting more widespread are a bad thing. So here we have a 
> company like Intel trying to make sales by making your future PC less 
> broken than your current one, and yet you'll no doubt chant "but my BIOS 
> works just fine. Why should I be forced to buy a new motherboard just to 
> install FreeBSD 6.3??"

Don't worry that won't happen -- AMD has committed to the current type of
BIOS and plans to NOT switch to EFI.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)