[Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@NetBSD.org>]

> Will anybody be unhappy if i386/amd64 distributions are switched to
> native CD-ROM based installation from the current floppy emulation
> based?

Well, it'd mean that I'd have a laptop that I *couldn't* install on
even if I wanted to.  (I don't expect to want to anytime soon.  But the
machine does have a floppy drive but no CD - a CD drive may exist for
the machine, but, as far as I know, I don't have one.)

> I'm strongly skeptical that there are users remaining who want to use
> floppies rather than CD-ROMs for installation on those ports (most
> i386/amd64 machines here in Korea are even shipped without floppy
> drives).

And only new machines matter?  Surely you don't really mean that, but
it seems to be what you're saying.

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>]

> And of course some "tiny" floppy images should probably be kept for a
> very long time still, to support "old" machines!

> This shouldn't happen as a "let's drop install floppy support and do
> only CDs now"-switch!

I greatly fear that - as has happened with other code - as soon as CD
is the default, the floopy support will promptly bitrot, and we will
actually lose working floppy installs almost immediately.

/~\ The ASCII				der Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
 X  Against HTML	       mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
/ \ Email!	     7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B