FreeBSD 10-RC1 ISO image too big

[Royce Williams]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Darren Pilgrim
<list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com> 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.

That's true if they only have to do one install.  As soon as they have
to set up multiple machines and/or reinstall a couple of times, the
math changes a bit (though I'm not sure by how much).

Royce