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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.
>  =20
>   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.
>  =20

Test builds (with NOPORTS=3D1 NOSRC=3D1 NODOC=3D1 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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