On Sat, 05 Feb 2000 18:33:47 +0100 
 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:

 > I agree that no modern systems come with EISA.  Does there exist
 > i386 machines with both EISA and PCI?  If so, it's pretty much a
 > show-stopper for chucking out the EISA devices from the default
 > install floppy -- we really ought to support installs on such
 > systems in a good manner as well.

There are PCI+EISA x86 systems.  Several high-end Intel motherboards
had this combination.  cvs.netbsd.org is one such system.

 > Longer-term (e.g. for 1.4.3 or 1.5) I see already that Frank's
 > talking about dhcp, and Itojun is talking about IPv6 support, and we
 > may eventually actually make ppp work by adding pppd and whatever
 > else is needed.  I'm not sure how much we would gain by chucking out
 > the EISA devices, so we may eventually need to give up on the
 > single-floppy goal anyway.  It's not like it's a big defeat, now, is
 > it?  Besides, it's also a pretty easy solution.

We have ustarfs, I suggest we use it!  Plus, there's the CD-ROM booting
option on more modern machines.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>