On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:49:17AM -0400, Ty Sarna wrote:
> In article <200506272249.39725.junyoung@netbsd.org> you write:
> > 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).
> > CD-ROM drives are very cheap these days (~$12 vs. ~$5 floppy drives) and
> > I can't find a machine without a CD-ROM drive anywhere.
> 
> I just built a server with a floppy and no cdrom drive. I have no need
> for cdrom on that machine, bios upgrade requires a dos boot floppy, and
> floppy drives are still cheaper and also happened to be convenient in
> terms of available external bays.

Same here. A CD would take a 5" bay, and I need all of them for disks.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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