Fix make release for 4-STABLE

Pete French petefrench at keithprowse.com
Mon Jan 19 03:52:26 PST 2004


> It's pretty obvious that within a couple more years they will be 
> completely replaced by CD-R media or similar things. So, having to use 

You are assuming that you can boot from the CD-ROM, which isnt true
on any of the machines I own for starters. Floppies are still very
useful as a bootstapping tool - even Windows XP does it this way
after all. It may take 6 floppies, but it enables you to get the OS
onto a machine with just a boot floppy.

-pcf.


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