Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)
On 22 Sep 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> At this point we are *so* far behind I'd rather just drop old
> hardware, or rather, if people wanna work on it and get it going, then
> fine, if not, we drop it. No biggie.
>
> Note that there *do* seem to be people fighting for 5.25" floppy
> support yet (which is pretty easy to do I guess).
I have secured access to a box with a 5.25 for testing this.
> Lowmem is another story though. I don't think even the slink
> boot-floppies worked right for lowmem, so I would propose to
> back-burner that, and if we don't get around to it, so what. :)
It's unlikely that a site techie enough still to be using an x86 box with
<8Mb of RAM is not also going to have ethernet or a CD rom drive.
Mk
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