FreeBSD 10-RC1 ISO image too big

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:25:57PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> On 12/15/2013 10:21 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
> >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.
> 
> But that will still be fewer downloaded bytes because the CD image contains
> extras they don't need.

How?

It will contain less bytes (lacking the distribution bits, sure), but
we're talking about the *cdrom* here, not *dvdrom*, so packages are not
relevant.

Glen

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