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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???

With as many times as this has been asked, it's been answered just as
often what the 2 (or in some cases, 3 and 4) ISO's are for.

This could be one of 3 things:

1. A troll.
2. Someone bragging that they have a DVD player/writer.
3. Someone that is just too lazy to search the Questions list.


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