From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 1 16:13:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691F416A417 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:13:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A3C13C46A for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:13:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so264590nfb.33 for ; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:13:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer:from; bh=GeoMl6Xd7fVAq+ZSLG6DQZ3V6Qzj+PM9aYqrrG4G0Ew=; b=ha9uzDJ2hU+bLppjbBDV+BEPbRHtKlv1LsRUYMK7bGXyyPzVwUKuvr+4Ws1vfoKclSNWHb04xQLFqbwrID3U4btsVIXSYApKTR4UG37nqgByUiVTWtg6UtZiBIGrryyx2ZKa9tLfkFNC+HWAZuN/CozJS8LCXmOA+XYqWQR5Yac= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer:from; b=lXoW9sWrhgIzizeZg6kqBBWdlZBPI0HKHVn3iDCJHFTenFzhYNWotkWuA2DW/Avs47eQl95u0R8+/hA5ZMeCSPoSaMaN2arBQRS5/lAmANt3qISJOqxQckmvaJJUE5dxPKiW1dVX31xAWD8CunHPRZUI+h8vwNG0panFIICRif8= Received: by 10.78.159.7 with SMTP id h7mr6402741hue.17.1201880646926; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:44:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.107? ( [76.22.52.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm40661hua.54.2008.02.01.07.44.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:44:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <6FEDAC81-9F17-4D9C-9BB9-5E33CE10D0DA@u.washington.edu> To: Jeff Palmer In-Reply-To: <47A33662.6000002@rexdb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 07:44:50 -0800 References: <200802011537.53078.root@solink.ru> <47A33662.6000002@rexdb.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) From: Garrett Cooper X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:49:02 +0000 Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 on DVD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:13:09 -0000 On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:10 AM, Jeff Palmer wrote: > Personally, I think the DVD would be a huge waste of resources. > Most people only need the bootonly or disk 1. You are talking about > 650 megs vs. (possibly) 1.5 gigs. That is a significant bandwidth > difference. Some OS's *require* that you download multiple CD's for > a typical install.. for those projects, DVD media just makes sense. > for freebsd, it doesn't. +1. If you can get away with the LiveCD, go for it. Only if one has a lossy or junk net connection at the site would I think the DVD media be a good idea (apart from what's mentioned above). As suggested by others, scripts which produce DVD images, and hence are burnable to DVDs, would be a lot more beneficial to end-users such as yourself. -Garrett