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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:50:49 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@shaneware.biz>, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>, 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:  <20160712205049.GH20831@zxy.spb.ru>
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote:

> Maybe Tier 2 can deal with just bootonly.iso.  Or your machines should
> be dropped from Tier 2 if they don't support USB and we aren't okay
> with dropping disc1 support for all of Tier 2.
> 
> There's lots of aging hardware we don't support in modern FreeBSD,
> including alpha and ia64.  USB is 20 years young at this point.

Not all BIOS can be boot from USB.
I am have Fujitsu notebook not support USB boot.

> Best,
> Conrad
> 
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 04:09:10PM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote:
> >> +1 on dropping CD images.
> >
> > I have 24U of things that don't have DVD players, including some tier-2
> > machines for which no upgrade is available.
> >
> > mcl
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