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: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:16:37 +0300
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 09:58:08PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:

> 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!

They have CD-ROM. Why I need buy USB DVD Drive?
Received on Tue Jul 12 2016 - 19:16:27 UTC

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