Subject: Re: Switching i386/amd64 to native CD-based installation?
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
List: port-amd64
Date: 06/27/2005 15:26:01
I'm strongly skeptical that there are users remaining who want to
use floppies rather than CD-ROMs for installation on those ports
(most i386/amd64 machines here in Korea are even shipped without
floppy drives).
I would be unhappy if floppy install was no longer available. I
usually use cdrom, and all my "new" machines have cdrom, but I have
two machines (Dell 325N from 1992 and IBM TP760ED from 1997ish) that I
would use floppy install on. The Dell is a stretch, as modern NetBSD
probably can't be made to fit (12 MB/120 MB), although I did run 0.8
and 0.9 on it. The Thinkpad currently has old FreeBSD, and it would
be useful to upgrade it. It has no cdrom currently, although I could
manage to put on in.
I wouldn't mind if the floppy install image was changed to be a 3
floppy set rather than 2. That would let us stop fighting the size
limit, and accept another 1.44MB of bloat.
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Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>