It really doesn't.  I was simply lamenting the loss of the single-floppy 
install image.  It was poetically simple and had a couple of usefull
"features."  But this is no real loss considering the drivers that have
been gained.  I was thrilled to discover that both the Fast Etherlink and 
Megahertz cards in my laptops are now supported -- as well as everything 
else that had given me fits in the 1.3.x distributions.
[fox]



You wrote:
>
> From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> To: Eric Fox <eric@fox.phoenix.az.us>
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:46:31 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: -current support for xircom PCMCIA cards?
> 
> 
> 
> [ Dropped current-users from the Cc list; why were both lists there in
> the first place? ]
> 
> | Well that stinks ... it was handy at times.  I suppose you could prep
> | another floppy with a GENERIC kernel on it to copy onto the drive.  Oh
> | well, you're beyond that problem now, right?
> 
> GENERIC is available in binary/kernel/netbsd.GENERIC.gz in the
> distribution tree,
> e.g. ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/20000620-1.5/binary/kernel/netbsd.GENERIC.gz
> for 1.5_ALPHA.
> 
> Why does this cause a loss of functionality to you?
> 
> --jhawk
> 
>