Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 06:05:59 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r Message-ID: <6ec8f6e2-a7ef-bc40-497e-b4862abb1ec5@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5784908E.1090007@ShaneWare.Biz> References: <op.ykgfddt2kndu52@eveline> <CAG6CVpW3rGEoqTcQodY%2BWVPVsTdxUd6OsB%2BzAq1k7Y-vUrdaSg@mail.gmail.com> <5784908E.1090007@ShaneWare.Biz>
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On 07/11/16 23:39, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 12/07/2016 06:54, Conrad Meyer wrote: >> DVD-R dates to 1997; cheap USB flash devices are now pervasive. Maybe >> it's time to move on from CD. > > +1 on dropping CD images. I haven't burnt a CD in over 10 years and I > don't believe I have seen a CD only drive in that time. Even with a CD > size image I have burnt them to DVD, I first started this because > transfer speeds of DVD's are faster and nowadays it costs almost the > same to burn a DVD. So I see zero benefit to using CD's and that's > before thinking of reusable USB devices. > > I do think there is a benefit to keeping the small boot only image > available that can be used to start/recover a machine that can then > download any data to be installed. > But some people clearly do want that, and this is trivially fixable by dropping the toolchain from disc1 and leaving it on the DVD image. So let's do that. -Nathan
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