Fix make release for 4-STABLE

[Richard Coleman]

Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> On Monday 2004 January 19 04:58, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> 
>>Yes, floppies are so cheap to buy, but sometimes not handy you know.
>>I believe that some of my friends said to me that "hey, I'm so tired
>>to write THREE floppy images, it's so slow!"
>>
>>It would be technically easy to introduce splitfs for kernel/mfsroot
>>(it is already there), but it also introduce an important design 
>>change. We should have enough time to consider that we decide the 3rd
>>floppy image treats a mandatory one.
> 
> 
> I suspect we will not have to deal with floppies for too much longer. 
> 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 
> three (or four or five) floppy images is merely a sign that floppy 
> disks are becoming less useful, and should not be viewed as a solution 
> with any permanence. Floppies will certainly be very close to obsolete 
> by 6.0-RELEASE, if not by the time of 5.4-RELEASE or thereabouts.
> 
> (And, BTW, these days floppies are really not that cheap compared to 
> even CD-RW media, if you evaluate them on a "per megabyte" basis.)

I agree with you when talking about the desktop environment.

But for the server environment with many headless rack-mounted servers, 
I don't think that will be true any time soon.  There are literally 
hundreds of thousands of such servers out there, and they won't be 
replaced any time soon.

For many such folks, pxeboot is a better option, if available.  But not 
all machines support this (although I suspect this number is much 
smaller than number of machines without cdrom).

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com