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by bentley 65 days ago
OpenBSD still maintains a floppy disk installer: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.8/amd64/ (floppy78.img)

It’s a healthy constraint but requires careful judgment. Making the installer fit on the floppy is easy if you just leave out a bunch of drivers that exist on the CD and USB installers. It takes discipline to make things fit by trimming bloated code in the kernel and removing vestigial features.