Hi,
Mark Linimon wrote:
> You can still build them. They just won't be built by default.
Trying that now on 8.0-RELEASE amd64 Thanks.
Ken Smith wrote:
> building them now
> fails due to another of the handful of reasons we wanted
> to abandon floppies
> ...
> the 'livefs'
> one can't and it re
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On 5/10/10 12:36 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> I'd suggest it would be good to commit & post a comment why removed.
> It will later affect rescue capability of some older servers when
> they get upgraded, (I guess many/most legacy production servers
>
You can still build them. They just won't be built by default.
mcl
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> > As for floppies building, it was turned off intentionally starting from 8.0.
> > See http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=188437
I looked earlier at URL above earlier, but just
kensmith(CC added)
Log Message: Turn off the building of boot floppies
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:08 PM, pluknet wrote:
> On 10 May 2010 06:05, Joseph Olatt wrote:
>
> As for floppies building, it was turned off intentionally starting from 8.0.
> See http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=188437
I'm guessing that this because of resource constraint
On 10 May 2010 06:05, Joseph Olatt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are floppy images no longer supplied with FreeBSD 8?
>
> The folling link [1] in the Handbook:
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/
>
> results in the following error:
>
> 550 /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELE
Hi,
Are floppy images no longer supplied with FreeBSD 8?
The folling link [1] in the Handbook:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/
results in the following error:
550 /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/: No such file or directory
regards,
joseph
