Subject: Re: Lack of bootable installation CD-ROM considered harmful
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@nhh.no>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/06/1999 15:32:50
Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> writes:

> But through all of this I'm thinking, "If there was a 1.3.3 CD-ROM I
> could toss in, say ``boot cdrom'' and have it come up into
> ``sysinst'' and do the install from there - I'd have had this thing
> up and running and the SPARCstation 1 tossed in the trash by now".

I guess you probably didn't mean this last bit literally, but just for
safety's sake (and this goes for anyone else phasing out old hardware
as well): don't throw away old computers unless you absolutely have
to!  There are plenty of us weirdos who _enjoy_ keeping them alive!  :)

-tih
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