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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:18:25 GMT
From: Andreas Wetzel <mickey242@gmx.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Missing installation floppies for 8.0-RELEASE
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>Number:         141851
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Missing installation floppies for 8.0-RELEASE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    linimon
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 21 19:20:02 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:    Tue Dec 22 17:20:27 UTC 2009
>Last-Modified:  Tue Dec 22 17:20:27 UTC 2009
>Originator:     Andreas Wetzel
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
There are no installation floppies for the 8.0-RELEASE to be found on:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE
>How-To-Repeat:
Open ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 22 17:14:42 UTC 2009 
State-Changed-Why:  
We have decided to desupport the floppy builds starting with the 8.0 
release.  The problem is that it was getting harder and harder to keep 
the boot image less than the size of a floppy disk.  Since most modern 
machines have either a CD drive, a USB interface, or both, it seemed 
like too much effort for too little gain. 

You can still build a floppy image by make -D MAKE_FLOPPIES release 
in the release directory. 

The commit in question: 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/Makefile 
Revision 1.939: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs 
Tue Feb 10 15:03:08 2009 UTC (10 months, 1 week ago) by kensmith 

mcl 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->linimon 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Dec 22 17:14:42 UTC 2009 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141851 
>Unformatted:
