Re: m68k port status update
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:16:41PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > So you'd rather call these floppy?
> >
> > I'll note that i386 can boot off floppy, whereas amiga and mac
> > cannot. Would another target name be clearer?
> >
> > I don't care much one way or the other. So far everything will fit on
> > a floppy, but I hadn't much been paying attention to size.
>
> If you need to download a floppy, then boot the native os, and run a
> bootloader from the floppy, then it's best to call the image a floppy
> image.
Notice that amigas usually booted from harddisk, not floppies, since
most users had only 720K floppies (but 880 if they were amiga formated).
Maybe calling those disk or something such would be more truthful.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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