Installation image size for CD exceeds media size
Kurt Hackenberg
kh at panix.com
Sat Nov 30 21:07:40 UTC 2019
On 2019-11-30 14:08, Polytropon wrote:
> FreeBSD-9.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 608919552
> FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 615966720
> FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 645224448
> FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 647389184
> FreeBSD-10.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 569620480
> FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 601817088
> FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 618297344
> FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 618297344
> FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 758073344
> FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 763678720
I guess this was accidental. I bet nobody noticed that this eventually
exceeded the size of a CD, or people forgot that "disc" meant CD.
I agree that the "disc" images should fit on CDs, and the "dvd" images
should fit on DVDs. Probably "disc" should be renamed "cd". Maybe it's
time to rethink that whole set of images for optical disks and flash
memory devices, decide how many and which ones are worth maintaining. In
everybody's copious free time.
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