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

From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw_at_zxy.spb.ru>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:50:49 +0300
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote:

> Maybe Tier 2 can deal with just bootonly.iso.  Or your machines should
> be dropped from Tier 2 if they don't support USB and we aren't okay
> with dropping disc1 support for all of Tier 2.
> 
> There's lots of aging hardware we don't support in modern FreeBSD,
> including alpha and ia64.  USB is 20 years young at this point.

Not all BIOS can be boot from USB.
I am have Fujitsu notebook not support USB boot.

> Best,
> Conrad
> 
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon_at_lonesome.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 04:09:10PM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote:
> >> +1 on dropping CD images.
> >
> > I have 24U of things that don't have DVD players, including some tier-2
> > machines for which no upgrade is available.
> >
> > mcl
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