FreeBSD 10-RC1 ISO image too big
Darren Pilgrim
list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Mon Dec 16 06:15:20 UTC 2013
On 12/14/2013 6:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>> Any reason you need cd media?
>
> it is not the CD media, it is simply the bandwidth needed. There are
> many FreeBSD people around this globe which do not have the luck of a
> 100MBit/s connection. Every byte which is not on a media counts here.
Your argument doesn't make sense. If they need to minimize downloading,
they should down the bootonly image and fetch/create packages for the
ports they need. Anything else is going to spend bytes downloading
things they won't use.
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