FreeBSD 10-RC1 ISO image too big

[Ian Smith]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:25:39 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
 > > The whole point of the mail was just to point out this regression before
 > > 10 it's released.
 > 
 > Yes. release/Makefile could also catch it automaticaly with filesize,
 > so it could not bite again (happened a few times over the years I
 > recall, not on releases but earlier).
 > 
 > 
 > PS Shane wrote
 > > Any reason you need cd media?
 > 
 > Apart from other replies (eg Lots of legacy PCs with just CD drives)
 > I also wonder if CDs might be more reliable as lower density ?

My old laptops have CD or CD/RW removable drives, one a DVD reader, but 
no DVD burner.  I hate having to hassle friends to burn me a DVD under 
windoze, especially making sure they do so in image mode.

What does FreeBSD 'make release' lack that PC-BSD has that enables 
making ~4GB images that can be burned to DVD _or_ to a USB memstick?

Or does someone have a working script to make a bootable memstick from 
our DVD images?

Machines like mine and even such as Asus eeepcs with no removable media 
except USB could use these and benefit from the larger set of release 
packages once provided on supplementary CDs, but now only on the DVD.

Even my 15 year old 300MHz Compaq 1500c - still running as a bush 
server! - has bootable USB 1.  Slow, for sure - but sure.

cheers, Ian