From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 16 06:02:37 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3895F76B for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5F0A1830 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:02:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id rBG5Y95e079372; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:34:10 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:34:09 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10-RC1 ISO image too big In-Reply-To: <201312151625.rBFGPdWa037170@fire.js.berklix.net> Message-ID: <20131216152013.P4108@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <201312151625.rBFGPdWa037170@fire.js.berklix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:02:37 -0000 On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:25:39 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > The whole point of the mail was just to point out this regression before > > 10 it's released. > > Yes. release/Makefile could also catch it automaticaly with filesize, > so it could not bite again (happened a few times over the years I > recall, not on releases but earlier). > > > PS Shane wrote > > Any reason you need cd media? > > Apart from other replies (eg Lots of legacy PCs with just CD drives) > I also wonder if CDs might be more reliable as lower density ? My old laptops have CD or CD/RW removable drives, one a DVD reader, but no DVD burner. I hate having to hassle friends to burn me a DVD under windoze, especially making sure they do so in image mode. What does FreeBSD 'make release' lack that PC-BSD has that enables making ~4GB images that can be burned to DVD _or_ to a USB memstick? Or does someone have a working script to make a bootable memstick from our DVD images? Machines like mine and even such as Asus eeepcs with no removable media except USB could use these and benefit from the larger set of release packages once provided on supplementary CDs, but now only on the DVD. Even my 15 year old 300MHz Compaq 1500c - still running as a bush server! - has bootable USB 1. Slow, for sure - but sure. cheers, Ian