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

From: Steven Hartland <killing_at_multiplay.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:58:08 +0100
On 12/07/2016 21:50, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> 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.
>
 From a USB Pen drive I can understand but from a USB DVD Drive that 
would be some seriously antiquated hardware!

     Regards
     Steve
Received on Tue Jul 12 2016 - 18:58:07 UTC

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