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

[Ronald Klop]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 23:24:10 +0200, Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> wrote:

> DVD-R dates to 1997; cheap USB flash devices are now pervasive.  Maybe
> it's time to move on from CD.

Becoming anecdotal now, but my fairly old computer has a (BIOS) bug which  
brakes booting from USB devices. It hangs when it boots with a USB stick  
in it.
With the bootonly ISO I upgraded it from 9.3-PRERELEASE to 11-BETA1. By  
just copying /boot/kernel from the CD to the harddisk. :-) I know I have  
to do more for a proper upgrade, but the ZFS version on disk was to new  
for the 9.3 kernel, by a human mistake. LOL

Regards,
Ronald.



>
> Best,
> Conrad
>
> 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.
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