On Jun 22, 2005, at 10:03 AM, John Clark wrote:

> Ok, I did that for some 68K and PPC platforms and various OS's like  
> RTMX (if anyone recalls...), OS/K, and a very ancient
> pre-NetBSD BSD port... but I guess I had not really seen a reason  
> for doing such for i386 becase El Torito existed, and
> worked, with the exception of having to create the floppy/disk image.
>
> What are the benefits to the i386 users, other than removing the  
> need to create the floppy/hard disk image?

The main benefit is that it allows us to build more unified ISO  
images for CDs, and helps lift some of the restrictions in the i386  
install media.  It's just generally more flexible.

-- thorpej