>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.
Awesome, I can *finally* put those Commodore64 drives to use! :) -- p
