Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:43:49 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> To: "Colin A. Aldred" <colin.aldred@wcoh.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ISOs Message-ID: <42DF7C65.8000705@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <E9CF3AACE3FCFA4DBDBF314A7685A6453CB4EB@archer.celyn.wcoh.ac.uk> References: <E9CF3AACE3FCFA4DBDBF314A7685A6453CB4EB@archer.celyn.wcoh.ac.uk>
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Colin A. Aldred wrote: >Please can you tell me why there are two 'ISO' disc images for FreeBSD? > >Namely: > >5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso >5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso > >Disc1 is larger than a standard CD so requires a DVD...so why bother >splitting them into disc1 and 2 when both would easily fit on one handy >DVD??? > > Beacuse not everybody can afford a DVD-writer. And FreeBSD is supposed to run on older hardware that doesn't even have a DVD-ROM drive. Releasing DVD images would be a nice feature, but CD images are still necessary for many people. Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán
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