FreeBSD 10-RC1 ISO image too big

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:15:17PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> 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.

No, bootonly.iso does not contain the base system, so download time will
be spent on downloading base.txz, kernel.txz, at minimum.

Glen

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