Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:22:18 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.1 i386 CD #1 image size not compatible with intended medium standard size Message-ID: <20200616142218.7e52e13710955a096b930573@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2006160801150.15855@mail2.nber.org> References: <20200616122728.7bd2df41.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200616115127.53797f2bdea77fcbe032b4bf@sohara.org> <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2006160801150.15855@mail2.nber.org>
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 08:20:45 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:27:28 +0200 > > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > ...> > >> When will FreeBSD supply a CD image file that can actually be > >> used with normal CD media again without requiring a workaround > >> and possibly breaking the result? > > > > Shortly after someone figures out how to and submits an > > acceptable patch - you may be the first to have been inconvenienced by > > this, it's been a long time since I used a CD. > > > > That is rather disengenuous. Is there any chance a patch that removed > some packageswould be accepted? I'd expect a patch on foot of a bug saying disc1 no longer fits on a CD would at least be considered. > Hasn't the decision already been made that there is no problem? I am That is not clear to me, the size could easily have crept over without anyone noticing given that CDs are near obsolete. It may well take a bug to draw attention to it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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