On 9/16/25 18:10, Sulev-Madis Silber wrote:
On September 17, 2025 3:27:58 AM GMT+03:00, Colin Percival
<cperc...@tarsnap.com> wrote:
Yes. "memstick" contains exactly the same bits as "disc1" -- the only
difference is how it boots. And for that matter, any modern system should
work just fine with the "disc1" image on a USB disk; we might get rid of
"memstick" in 16 since it's pointless duplication.
that would mean that people who sometimes slightly modify installers now need
to make their own custom full installer images?
at minimum one needs to extract it
maybe not even bad i think...
but i'm surprised that it's memstick that goes first and not discs. except
longer shelf life (nearly forever if you press it) and being physically
readonly, i don't know how many installs are done from *actual* cd(-r) /
dvd(-r). sometimes you don't even have reader nor writer nor blanks. MODERN hw,
right?
The name "disc1" is historical. It doesn't even fit on a CD any more. (We
do try to make sure the "dvd" image fits on a DVD, though.)
Most installs should using the "disc1" image on a memory stick.
Basically, "disc1" should work on a memory stick but "memstick" doesn't work
on optical media. So we should keep the option which works everywhere.
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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
