Inquiry

[Ryusuke SUZUKI]

From: Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Inquiry
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:16:13 -0400

> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 07:05:25PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> > My real concern before removing this section is anything that will cause
> > inconsistency, such as "See <xref="install-boot-media"> for
> > ${something_floppy_specific}."
> >
>
> Another sigh of relief.  Going by a "Quick Grep[tm]", I don't see
> anything non-installation related pointing to this chapter.  So,
> install/chapter.sgml (which does need some attention anyway) appears to
> be the only reference to the floppy installation images.
>
> I'm still reluctant to remove the "Creating a Floppy Installer" section,
> but I certainly do not like having known-bad-links on the site either...
>
> I may replace the content of that section noting the floppy installation
> images are no longer available, as long as no one objects to that
> solution.  At least until the install/chapter.sgml section gets the
> attention it desperately needs.

 Glen-san,

 The removal os reference to floppy installations was already spotted as
 PR: docs/155982 by eadler at .

 As blackend@ said in this PR, PC98 arch needs installation floppies and
 there are floppies directory even for 8.3 RELEASE
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/pc98/8.3-RELEASE/floppies/

 Regards,

 Ryusuke
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