Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 17:43:29 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, vadim_nuclight@mail.ru Subject: Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future) Message-ID: <200803091643.m29GhTxt075986@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <freebsd-current.slrnft21b5.2cho.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net>
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Vadim Goncharov wrote: > 7.0-RELEASE images came out with FIVE disks - disc 1 to 3 and separate LiveFS > and docs. What do they contain? - The small "bootonly" CD contains only sysinstall. It can be used if you want to install from the network. - Disk 1 contains everything you need to install the base FreeBSD system, as well as a few useful packages. - Disk 2 and 3 just contain more packages. - The "docs" CD only contains documentation: Handbook, FAQ and articles in various languages. These are also available online, so there's rarely a need to download this CD. - The "livefs" CD contains the usual "fixit" live file system. It is bootable on its own, so you do _not_ need to download disk1 if you only want the livefs CD. By the way, you can combine disk1 and the livefs image into a single ISO image and write it onto a DVD-R. It won't fit on a CD-R disk, though, and that's the reason why the lifefs went onto a separate ISO image. > I suspect this separation is due to sizes od docs etc. - but CD drives can now > handle even 700 MBs of data, and disc1 for i386 occupies only 509M, though > disc2 is 694M, yes. As you can see, disk1 + livefs is larger than 700 MB. The docs CD is separate anyway, which is a good thing because many people won't need it. > May be it is desirable to compress docs and other base system parts with > bzip2 -9 instead of gzip? What exactly would you propose to compress? Compressing the docs isn't a good idea, because then you wouldn't be able to read them directly from the CD. Also, as mentioned above, the docs are already on a separate CD. > P.S. And may be it is good also to resurrect miniinst disk for > Depenguinator project? :) Do you mean the "bootonly" CD? It's already there. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Life is short (You need Python)" -- Bruce Eckel, ANSI C++ Comitee member, author of "Thinking in C++" and "Thinking in Java"
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