Bug 256412

Summary:	13.0-RELEASE amd64 DVD .iso is too big to burn on 4.7GB DVD-R
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Vincent Bentley <vince>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed DUPLICATE
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	grahamperrin, unitrunker, zor1984qq
Priority:	---
Version:	13.0-RELEASE
Hardware:	amd64
OS:	Any
See Also:	https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233989 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253483

Description Vincent Bentley 2021-06-04 10:41:28 UTC

I needed to create a physical boot DVD for 13.0-RELEASE as my memory stick image for 13.0 would not boot on the old 64-bit PC I was working on. From memory, the 13.0-RELEASE amd64 DVD image needs to lose about 100MB-200MB to fit on a 4.7GB DVD.

This only affects those needing a 13.0-RELEASE image on physical DVD media.

The issue is similar to open bug 253483 that refers to 13-STABLE
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253483

Also similar to closed bug 255057 that refers to 13-STABLE
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=255057

Comment 1 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2021-06-05 16:05:59 UTC

Duplicate of bug 253483

Comment 2 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2021-06-05 16:09:23 UTC

… sorry, I see that you already referenced 253483. I imagine that another report is not required.

Comment 3 Vincent Bentley 2021-06-07 12:49:05 UTC

The other two reports concern STABLE which is accepted that some things will be broken due to continuous change. However, I have raised this because the bug found it's way to RELEASE where there is a general expectation that things will be less broken. I only wanted to raise awareness that this bug found it's way to the 13.0-RELEASE version.

Comment 4 sergey 2021-07-14 22:29:39 UTC

Same here but I have dvd-rw ;)

Comment 5 unitrunker 2021-07-18 01:23:38 UTC

As a workaround, if someone could document how to use the DVD iso image on a USB drive - that would help greatly.

Right now folks are wasting time and bandwidth downloading an image they can't use.

Comment 6 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2021-07-18 02:30:54 UTC

(In reply to unitrunker from comment #5)

> … how to use the DVD iso image on a USB drive …

I always used dd, as outlined under 
<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-usb>

– use the .iso file as the input file. 

The computer might do as well with a USB drive from an .iso file as it would do with a USB drive from an .img file. <https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/57687/post-523224>

An example with gdd(1) instead of dd(1): 

gdd status=progress bs=10M if=/⋯/⋯.iso of=/dev/da⋯

----

% pkg provides usr/local/bin/gdd
Name    : coreutils-8.32
Desc    : Free Software Foundation core utilities
Repo    : FreeBSD
Filename: usr/local/bin/gdd
% pkg query %o coreutils
sysutils/coreutils
% 

<https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/coreutils/>

Comment 7 unitrunker 2021-07-18 03:12:50 UTC

(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #6)

Thanks Graham. Just got back from purchasing a pair of cheap 8GB USB sticks. About to try this out.

Comment 8 unitrunker 2021-07-18 04:19:51 UTC

(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #6)

I'm able to boot on at least one machine with this image on USB.

Comment 9 Glen Barber freebsd_committer

2021-07-21 19:26:06 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 255057 ***