Ted Unangst [t...@tedunangst.com] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:53, Peter Laufenberg wrote: > > > /reference/, they're not meant to solve high-level problems. The FAQs are > > really are no FAQs at all but a gigantic snowball with floppy install > > instructions crucially leaving out 5 1/4" and 8" media. > > That's because 5" and 8" floppy drives aren't supported for installation.
He was just being sarcastic. Peter's (well taken) point is that OpenBSD is crucially lacking support for the larger floppy media from the last 40 years. A large oversight, indeed. Ever since I read it hours ago, I have been working furiously adding support for PDP-11s so that we have something that can accept an 8" floppy drive. I've also decided to take the second challenge, and shrink the install media down to 1.2MB to support a 5.25 floppy. I think we finally have a way out of this mess.
