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

[Lars Engels]

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 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

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
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