On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
I've built a kernel without "device fdc" on amd64 at least since
5.4 IIRC. I
had problems with hangs when accessing the floppy drive.
Haven't used floppies in years, don't miss them. A USB thumbdrive
holds
a lot more data anyway.
I build all of my servers without CD and floppy drivers -- I
configure them to build as loadable module just in case, but I've
never yet had the need to load them... If I could get freebsd to
install from a usb CD, i'd probably order the boxes without cd drives
altogether, as it is used pretty much exactly once per life of server
around here.
