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Date:      Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:34:21 +0200
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>
Cc:        Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r
Message-ID:  <20160713143420.GP15808@e-new.0x20.net>
In-Reply-To: <op.ykhftjlvkndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local>
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:09:09PM +0200, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 23:24:10 +0200, Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> > DVD-R dates to 1997; cheap USB flash devices are now pervasive.  Maybe
> > it's time to move on from CD.
>=20
> Becoming anecdotal now, but my fairly old computer has a (BIOS) bug which=
 =20
> brakes booting from USB devices. It hangs when it boots with a USB stick =
=20
> in it.
> With the bootonly ISO I upgraded it from 9.3-PRERELEASE to 11-BETA1. By =
=20
> just copying /boot/kernel from the CD to the harddisk. :-) I know I have =
=20
> to do more for a proper upgrade, but the ZFS version on disk was to new =
=20
> for the 9.3 kernel, by a human mistake. LOL

I've never tried it, but Plop Boot Manager allows to boot from USB
on PCs without BIOS USB support (or in your case, where that support is
broken):

https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

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