Re: 12.4 disc 1 iso is really large

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:58 PM Dan Mahoney (Ports) wrote:
> Src is outdated as soon as it’s extracted in most cases, and user education as to “here’s how you get the source if you need it” would serve us better.
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> Kernel-dbg is also not the kind of thing most people are going to need without having net access, but I could see if being useful for doing things like bringing up new boards, lab systems, special configurations.
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> So — if we eliminated src, and just started teaching people that if you want to build things from src, you should get them from git, or the src.tar.xz on the ftp site, things would still fit easily for a while to come.

In case of "Z"ombie apocalypse having a source code of the whole OS
may come handy :-P :-P

QuickFix: I am also big fan of optical disks.. not only because of my
nickname, I also use BluRay for backups (25/50/100GB per disk). There
are also small 8cm DVD+RW 1.4GB disks that come handy when some stuff
does not fit on CD and DVD seems too big.. is this an option? You can
get pretty cheap Verbatim 8cm SERL HardCoat 5x pack box of DVD+RW (4x
write speed) and these will sere you for years :-) One problem with
them is you need a drive with a tray loading mechanism due to small
form factor.

AnotherFix: Another solution that uses USB pendrive with multiple ISO
images that you simply copy to a (ex)FAT partition is VENTOY. You can
have as much ISO images as can fit on a pendrive, boot off the
pendrive, select ISO from a menu, then chain-boot the image. Both BIOS
and UEFI boot supported. You can also use small and slow cheap
pendrive (business card?) because reading is fast anyway and you will
most surely write only once (per several months)..

https://www.ventoy.net

Have fun! :-)

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