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Subject: Re: ISOs
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Colin A. Aldred wrote:

>Please can you tell me why there are two 'ISO' disc images for FreeBSD?
> 
>Namely:
> 
>5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
>5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso
> 
>Disc1 is larger than a standard CD so requires a DVD...so why bother
>splitting them into disc1 and 2 when both would easily fit on one handy
>DVD???
>  
>
Beacuse not everybody can afford a DVD-writer. And FreeBSD is supposed 
to run on older hardware that doesn't even have a DVD-ROM drive. 
Releasing DVD images would be a nice feature, but CD images are still 
necessary for many people.

Cheers,

Gábor Kövesdán