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

[Steve Rikli]

I haven't done it in a very long time (circa FreeBSD-6) but PXE installs
were possible back then, so I'd hope that's still a possibility in 11.

Are there mostly current docs for that routine these days?

Cheers,
sr.

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.
> 
> Best,
> Conrad
> 
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon at 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