Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:35:25 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Pretty large bootonly for 10.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <52DEAFDD.3050009@grosbein.net>
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Hi! What is the reason for FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso to be 210M in size? Is it supposed to be "bootonly" media or full LiveCD also? For example, it has over 24MB of manual pages in the /usr/share/man directory that cannot be read due to missing binaries in "LiveCD" mode: # man man eval: groff: not found eval: tbl: not found Large image like that takes significant time to download when your network connection is not very fast. Perhaps, we could make it compressed? For example, /usr/share inside the image takes 70MB but only 18M if compressed with xz. We could use geom_uncompress to mount its xz-compressed variant to /usr/share/ during boot. After all, ISO is mounted read-only anyway. Eugene Grosbein
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