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

On 07/11/16 23:39, Shane Ambler wrote:
> On 12/07/2016 06:54, Conrad Meyer wrote:
>> DVD-R dates to 1997; cheap USB flash devices are now pervasive.  Maybe
>> it's time to move on from CD.
>
> +1 on dropping CD images. I haven't burnt a CD in over 10 years and I
> don't believe I have seen a CD only drive in that time. Even with a CD
> size image I have burnt them to DVD, I first started this because
> transfer speeds of DVD's are faster and nowadays it costs almost the
> same to burn a DVD. So I see zero benefit to using CD's and that's
> before thinking of reusable USB devices.
>
> I do think there is a benefit to keeping the small boot only image
> available that can be used to start/recover a machine that can then
> download any data to be installed.
>

But some people clearly do want that, and this is trivially fixable by 
dropping the toolchain from disc1 and leaving it on the DVD image. So 
let's do that.
-Nathan