Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 06:40:35 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-Release disk3 and disk4 Message-ID: <20030408204035.GG310@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030408193344.GC34447@wjv.com> References: <20030408190136.9E7C037B405@hub.freebsd.org> <20030408193344.GC34447@wjv.com>
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On 2003-Apr-08 15:33:44 -0400, Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> wrote: >> The simple explanation is that this is all the FreeBSD project itself >> creates. The ports packages that filled up CD's 2, 3 and 4 are no >> longer part of the "official" FreeBSD -RELEASE image. > >And how much of that will relate to the fact that it now runs >on iNTEL, Alpha, and PC98 architectures. I remember when I had >NeXTStep we had quad-fat disks to support all architectures. >I can see this could cause ports problems as some have binary >pieces in them. Apart from FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE (which had an Alpha install on disk 2), the different architectures have different -RELEASE ISOs. This avoids the problem of trying to build CDs that have binaries for different architectures. Obviously supporting all the different architectures increases the -RELEASE effort and provides more incentive to only have one space constrained ISO instead of 4. (There's no real space constraint on the live filesystem disk). Peterhome | help
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