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> References: <op.ykgfddt2kndu52@eveline> <CAG6CVpW3rGEoqTcQodY%2BWVPVsTdxUd6OsB%2BzAq1k7Y-vUrdaSg@mail.gmail.com> <op.ykhftjlvkndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local>
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--u8zu0/Xp8RxpBt3B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --u8zu0/Xp8RxpBt3B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJXhlFsXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ4RjQwMDE3RTRERjUzMTI1N0FGRTUxNDlF NTRDQjM3RDNBMDg5RDZEAAoJEOVMs306CJ1t9uwIAK+xZi7m1IKIaHX7/880N90z 4L/NQT0yvNy6WShM6Sj2/CmFXqkKPZRpjcnHwwlG+tKaoXnXob4WpLlEGa2TodUd 0IGZy8IhwfCZs6/whdXpt6/dxn0b0+BTfzyORJlt84JFuH8jWvXKp8+EFuBsAvOM dCT5VtlQdcF/ZHYHfZ3f81n8kSZaaAVsB9sWPL6g+RrLKSHDGZ+7vap5Ol2J1DXx gxNCLz1lxIYIKnI84RwCgQwihmE7s46nfqcWsZu7xTu7uFk+eszF1ENPLPxYidso I3eY+Bpfgj8qUL2ZT/bcjBIICrrSsVwsz0z3HgtI2BH+LubNaOHyWFDsof1yT/k= =tgsR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u8zu0/Xp8RxpBt3B--
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