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From: Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
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On 12/15/2013 10:21 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:15:17PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>> 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.
>
> No, bootonly.iso does not contain the base system, so download time will
> be spent on downloading base.txz, kernel.txz, at minimum.

But that will still be fewer downloaded bytes because the CD image 
contains extras they don't need.