Re: [2.1+] installation methods

Olaf Westrik <weizen_42-Yz37vSk3/[email protected]> Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:39:08 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ipcop.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2014-02-20 12:15, G.W. Haywood wrote:

>> In future I'd like to 'officially' skip the floppy disk installation
>> method and drop the usb-zip installation.
>>
>> 'Modern' hardware should be able to use either CD, PXE boot, USB
>> (hdd/fdd) for installation.
>
> This isn't necessarily to be considered as an objection, but I don't
> think that the definition of 'modern hardware', whatever it is, should
> influence the development of IPCop as much as, say, the development of
> something like a Window manager.

No worries.
We're not considering dropping support for IDE, PCI, etc. These were 
missing in motherboards I had to do with recently. 'really-modern' would 
be something like SATA and PCIe only.


Olaf

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