Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r

From: Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:39:51 -0400
On 2016-07-11 18:33, Chris H wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:46:04 +0300 Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw_at_zxy.spb.ru> wrote
>
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 09:41:44PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 03:32:34PM -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws>
>>>> wrote: >> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just downloaded the amd64 BETA1 ISO (873MB) and tried to burn a CD on
>>>>>> Windows 10. It complained that the ISO is too big for my 700 MB CD-r.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The bootonly iso (281MB) burns and runs ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Ronald.
>>>>
>>>> Please open a PR.  Those images should be able to fit on a CD.
>>>
>>> This was actually a known "going to be problem" thing for 11.0.  I'm
>>> looking into how to fix this for 11.0-RELEASE, but right now, there is
>>> not much more we can exclude from it. :(
> Can't it use the compressed iso format, or is it already using that
> format. Sorry haven't checked.
>>
>> Reduce GENERIC to MINIMAL?
>
> --Chris
>
>
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380MB of the data on disc1 is the distsets, which are already .txz (max 
compression). That doesn't leave much room for the live OS on the disk.

-- 
Allan Jude
Received on Mon Jul 11 2016 - 20:39:56 UTC

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