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On 10/9/13 7:20 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 07:17:11AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Only a few years ago you could take a dvd or memstick of FreeBSD and
>> have 1000s of packages to choose from during your install.  That is
>> broken now?
>>
> memstick.img always had a minimal set of packages (mostly documentation
> sets).
>
> dvd1.iso has packages.
>
> Glen
>
Thanks Glen!

I'm just confused as to why this is such a big deal if the packages are 
available.

Do we need a "package memstick" now that memsticks are typically 4 or 
even 8GB?

-- 
Alfred Perlstein