2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD

johnpoz

Haha - I wish ;)

Like that guy that threw away like 7k bitcoins.. And now is trying to get permission from the dump to go diving for the drive..

https://news.bitcoin.com/man-accidentally-threw-away-hard-drive-with-7500-bitcoins-million-landfill/

I would of transferred them to modern storage years and years go if that was the case..

DaddyGo

@rosmaniac said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

I've been running *a nix for 30 years; familiar with progress I am, understand the Netgate reasoning I do, but caught in a bind I be. 2.4.4p3 is still supported

I say I'm sorry...

I didn't read it carefully enough, that you use the previous version as a "springboard" for installation, 2.4.5-p1

Although this is not the best either, as a clean installation has the benefits of considering disk fragmentation. (then it does not yet exist :))
(pkg... installation, - reinstallation and deletion processes, TaTatatata)

I understand your attitude to the old HW, but it’s time to look for new donator :-)

I read the other posts about old and new OS, IT, network developments, storage solutions... (and other)

well, yes the IT world is moving forward.... floppy, CD, DVD, double layer, blue ray, pen drive, etc..

I started with this (C64 I. and later II. - BASIC and later Simons' BASIC), so what you wrote is not far from me...

(the best part is that it still works(!) and I load the Last Ninja game from a 5.25" floppy (one sided floppy(!)) disc, hihihihi)

For someone who doesn't know Last Ninja:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ninja

BTW:
It’s good to hear that there are still people who selflessly help the other. PEACE

johnpoz

Wow - brings back memories. I never played that one.. My favs were reach for the stars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_for_the_Stars_(video_game)
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

I had found my 1541 drive in a box in the garage a couple years back.. Finally threw it out..I had scrapped the c64 that was on a shelf in closet a few years before..

Should of prob kept them - would of been a fun project maybe to get it working.. But finally had to start clearing stuff out.. Like when am I ever going to use this ISA 10mbit network card, or this old video card, etc. etc.

provels

Who has a Bernoulli drive?

gabacho4

My very first computer was a C64. Family got it when I was in 8th grade. Would put my favorite 5.25 inch floppy in the drive (no that's not what she said...), type run pitfall.exe, hit enter, and enjoy some adventure and doom...

DaddyGo

@johnpoz said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

Wow - brings back memories.

Nostalgia is good, only a few can enjoy it, the average age of the forum is young and that's good!!!!

Yeah and here are the guys whining that it doesn't work the multiplayer on PS4 and Xbox on a same subnet with two, three, four machines in same time... -behind the firewall - we didn't even know what the firewall used to be.... WTF

John, - it was damn good too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bros._II

DaddyGo

@gabacho4 said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

My very first computer was a C64.

welcome to the club

it was my real first, but there was only one piece in school:

https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Spectrum

+++edit:

and this but this is a Hungarian development, it was promising but failed (8 bit, huhuhuhu)

https://homelab.8bit.hu/

rosmaniac

@daddygo said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

Nostalgia is good, only a few can enjoy it, the average age of the forum is young and that's good!!!!

If you enjoy this kind of not-on-topic vintage computer conversation, you'd probably like the Vintage Computer Forums at www.vcfed.org/forum where vintage nostalgia is completely on-topic.

In any case, I got the answer (and attention to the issue) I was after, and hopefully the non-profit client will be able to get some newer kit donated. At least I'm not trying to port pfSense to the old 68020-based Proteon 8200 routers we have in the basement.....

Thanks all!

johnpoz

My first was a trs-80, had a sinclar 1000 as well. Use to walk to the library to use a PET ;)

Back in the days of where you use to connect the phone handset into the modem... And you could type faster than the modem could handle..

rosmaniac

@daddygo said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

@rosmaniac said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

I've been running *a nix for 30 years; familiar with progress I am, understand the Netgate reasoning I do, but caught in a bind I be. 2.4.4p3 is still supported

I say I'm sorry...

Yeah, my first *nix was Tandy Xenix on a TRS-80 Model 16 (68000 processor); it was actual real Unix as ported by Microsoft and Tandy.

I didn't read it carefully enough, that you use the previous version as a "springboard" for installation, 2.4.5-p1

Right; I had no intention of staying on the old version, just boot to it and update. I had to do the same thing with CentOS 8 on a much newer server that still didn't like the USB stick for some reason; 8.2 fits on a DVD-DL but 8.3 doesn't. So I'll boot 8.2 and install, and then immediately upgrade to 8.3.

It’s good to hear that there are still people who selflessly help the other. PEACE

We try!

Derelict

I moved twice in the last 2 years. Almost nothing "vintage" survived.

I did just find a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 in a box though. ;)

DaddyGo

@johnpoz said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

And you could type faster than the modem could handle..

hey, well try this today,....through these FTTH, DOCSIS, IPoE, etc

but we must be able to type faster, we have been learning for a long time...

so, we are no longer "chickens" which is born today....
it’s good to know that these old stuff was everywhere in the world :)

johnpoz

@derelict said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

I did just find a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 in a box though. ;)

You should calculate the cost of shipping that across country ;) heheh

Well prob not.. Nothing good could come from that..

DaddyGo

@derelict said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

I moved twice in the last 2 years. Almost nothing "vintage" survived.

these stuff (C64 / I. and II.) survived, because they "live" in my parents house... :)
they have lived in one place for more than 65 years
my parents, not the C64 :)

provels

@derelict said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

Hayes Smartmodem 1200

Hard one of those on my 486. Free to me when my work upgraded to 2400. Dialed up ATI in Canada to download my first-ever driver update. Cost me about $45 in phone charges. Pretty sure I sold it on EBay eventually. SMH

DaddyGo

@provels said in 2.4.5p1 ISO too large for CD:

Hard one of those on my 486.

I have two of these, I have kept them as objects of remembrance, hmmm:

+++edit:
MMX instruction set, hhuhuhuh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMX_(instruction_set)

+++edit2:

I almost forgot and this: - horror GPU :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Savage

rosmaniac

@rosmaniac
While I know this is an old thread, I'm posting this note here anyway.....

The new 2.5.1 ISO will in fact FIT on a CD again. Thanks guys!

stephenw10

Yup, I bunch of stuff was removed. Also means the memstick images still fit on my 1GB pfSense branded USB drives. Yay.

lohphat

@johnpoz Mod-I owner here. I still have it in storage. It hasn't seen power in 35 years since I moved to IBM-PCs around 1985. I can't bear to part with it.

JKnott

@rosmaniac

Are there any computers that can't boot from USB, but can still run a current version of pfsense? I thought it has been 64 bit only for a while and any 64b computer should be able to boot from USB.