Re: [Etherboot-developers] Rom-o-matic feature request

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Marty Connor wrote:

> On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 07:17  PM, Marty Connor wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 04:41  PM, Paolo Salvan wrote:
> >> The new etherboot should allow to build auto-detecting floppy
> >> ("etherboot", "etherboot-pci"); can this feature be usable also from 
> >> the
> >> rom-o-matic web site?
> 
> > Anyway, thanks for your suggestion, and I'll see what my staff thinks 
> > of it.

I just figured you were talking about Pete :)


Keep up the great work Marty.

Jim.


> 
> I should have put a big smiley :) behind that. Or better a wink ;)
> 
> Lest people actually think there is a department of people here working 
> on Etherboot, rather than a globally distributed dedicated group of 
> professionals who give of their copious free time to support Free 
> Software and make the world a better place (as well as work on a really 
> cool project! ;)
> 
> I was just writing to Ken:
> 
> "... When I do the LinuxWorld shows, knowing that there are people in 
> the world who respect and depend on Etherboot is a great source of 
> comfort and strength. I missed the mingling and non-directed thinking I 
> used to do before at shows. But being in the booth and making direct 
> contact with our "customers" is such an important thing that even after 
> 3 years and six shows, I always look forward to the next one, and what 
> improvements we can bring to the table. "
> 
> I probably should write more. I often find email (and writing in 
> general) a dissatisfyingly uni-dimensionsal half-duplex, and  
> unexpressive medium, in general. But it is what it is, and I do my best 
> with it. It has its good points too.
> 
> As a wrap-up to LinuxWorld Expo (pictures at http://www.thinguin.org/ ) 
> I'd like to thank everyone who is associated with the Etherboot project 
> for your support. I'd like to thank Markus for taking time from work to 
> help in the booth and hack on the http: download stuff. So many people 
> come up to the booth and say nice things about us. BIOS vendors are 
> getting interested in adding Etherboot as an option. I need to 
> follow-up with them.
> 
> In the four years I have been helping with Etherboot, we've seen some 
> really excellent things happen, and it's worth checking out 
> http://www.etherboot.org/doc/html/userman/acknowledgements.html to see 
> all the people who have given a little (or much more) of themselves to 
> make Etherboot as useful as it is.
> 
> Ken is good at modestly thanking others, but let me say that the last 
> four years of Etherboot hacking have been a great privilege, and 
> hopefully, people appreciate both the code and the sense of fun.
> 
> Thanks to everyone, and I can't wait to see what we come up with next!
> 
> Marty
> 
> 
> 
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