FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r

[Steven Hartland]

On 11/07/2016 23:39, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2016-07-11 18:33, Chris H wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:46:04 +0300 Slawa Olhovchenkov 
>> <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 09:41:44PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 03:32:34PM -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists at klop.ws>
>>>>> wrote: >> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just downloaded the amd64 BETA1 ISO (873MB) and tried to burn a 
>>>>>>> CD on
>>>>>>> Windows 10. It complained that the ISO is too big for my 700 MB 
>>>>>>> CD-r.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The bootonly iso (281MB) burns and runs ok.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Ronald.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please open a PR.  Those images should be able to fit on a CD.
>>>>
>>>> This was actually a known "going to be problem" thing for 11.0.  I'm
>>>> looking into how to fix this for 11.0-RELEASE, but right now, there is
>>>> not much more we can exclude from it. :(
>> Can't it use the compressed iso format, or is it already using that
>> format. Sorry haven't checked.
>>>
>>> Reduce GENERIC to MINIMAL?
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>>
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>
> 380MB of the data on disc1 is the distsets, which are already .txz 
> (max compression). That doesn't leave much room for the live OS on the 
> disk.
>
Silly question but what about only supporting DVD?

I can't remember the last server I installed that had CDROM drive vs a 
DVD drive.