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
Duplicate of bug 253483
… sorry, I see that you already referenced 253483. I imagine that another report is not required.
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.
Same here but I have dvd-rw ;)
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.
(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/>
(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.
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #6) I'm able to boot on at least one machine with this image on USB.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 255057 ***