Re: 4.9 is now available

2003-10-31 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:58:03PM -0800, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Bob Willcox wrote: Seems that they should be able to create the floppy disks and boot from them still. Not ideal, but should work. Floppies are an endangered species. At work we just bought a large number (thousands) of new

Re: 4.9 is now available

2003-10-31 Thread Dan Strick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:58:03PM -0800, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Bob Willcox wrote: Seems that they should be able to create the floppy disks and boot from them still. Not ideal, but should work. Floppies are an endangered species. At work we just bought a large number (thousands) of new

Re: 4.9 is now available

2003-10-31 Thread Leland
Floppies are an endangered species. At work we just bought a large number (thousands) of new machines and not a single one came with a floppy drive. Now that I think of it, neither of my home machines has a floppy either. Although I do have one drive sitting on the shelf, just in case.

Re: 4.9 is now available

2003-10-30 Thread Don Lewis
On 30 Oct, Bruce A. Mah wrote: I'm pretty sure we have support for both types of bootable CD-ROMs in the bootstraps and the release building code on both 4.X and 5.X. Anyone who builds their own releases ought to be able to generate either type. It's not a goal of the FreeBSD Project to

Re: 4.9 is now available

2003-10-30 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Don Lewis wrote: On 30 Oct, Bruce A. Mah wrote: I'm pretty sure we have support for both types of bootable CD-ROMs in the bootstraps and the release building code on both 4.X and 5.X. Anyone who builds their own releases ought to be able to generate either type.