"dvd1" in CD image names? (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 available here)

[Chris Hill]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:21:32 -0400
> Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
>
>> FreeBSD 9.0 BETA3 is available here
>>
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
>
> I've been wondering, why the recent change to using "dvd1" in the names 
> of the full CD images?  These *are* CD, not DVD images, aren't they?

They are ISOs. You can burn them to either a CD or a DVD, since they are 
small enough to fit on a CD.

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Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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