Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 14:03:35 -0500 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r257805 - head/release Message-ID: <20131107190335.GD89594@glenbarber.us> In-Reply-To: <201311071853.rA7Irujx011892@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201311071853.rA7Irujx011892@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 06:53:56PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> Log:
> Add a 'mini-memstick.img' release target, which will use the
> 'bootonly.iso' components to create a smaller memory stick image.
>
> This is useful for system recovery, where a full memstick.img image
> is not necessarily needed (or wanted). In addition, it is possible to
> do bootonly-style installation, where the base.txz, kernel.txz, etc.
> are fetched from a remote source.
>
Test builds (with NOPORTS=1 NOSRC=1 NODOC=1 set) provide quite
a significant reduction in file size, compared to the memstick.img.
FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-memstick.img - 570M
FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-mini-memstick.img - 221M
Glen
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