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Re: And now for something completely different... etch!



On Jun 12, Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> wrote:

> I have a very nice Pentium I (my internet gateway) that has a broken 
> CD-drive and no USB (and certainly wouldn't boot from USB even if it had) 
> but that installs perfectly from floppy.
You said it: it's *broken*.
Expecting to support some old hardware is OK, expecting to support old
and broken hardware is not.

> There are also other platforms that only do floppy boots (older macs, 
> probably m68k too).
Looks like they should use floppy + netboot then.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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