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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 2013 22:15:17 -0800
From:      Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
To:        Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10-RC1 ISO image too big
Message-ID:  <52AE9A75.9090209@bluerosetech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131215105736.51c51073@X220.alogt.com>
References:  <20131214095001.GV13385@equilibrium.bsdes.net> <52AD0F73.5050905@ShaneWare.Biz> <20131215105736.51c51073@X220.alogt.com>

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On 12/14/2013 6:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>> Any reason you need cd media?
>
> it is not the CD media, it is simply the bandwidth needed. There are
> many FreeBSD people around this globe which do not have the luck of a
> 100MBit/s connection. Every byte which is not on a media counts here.

Your argument doesn't make sense.  If they need to minimize downloading, 
they should down the bootonly image and fetch/create packages for the 
ports they need.  Anything else is going to spend bytes downloading 
things they won't use.



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