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 ac

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 eithe

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) o

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) o

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 > > i