Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:17:41 +0100 From: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (Hans Lambermont) To: Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future) Message-ID: <20080317111741.GB6353@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <slrnftsfkm.1dfj.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net> References: <slrnftkld5.2gfb.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net> <200803141508.m2EF86Jl068931@lurza.secnetix.de> <slrnftsfkm.1dfj.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net>
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Vadim Goncharov wrote:
>> Therefore, my opinion is that we should publish a DVD image in the
>> future that contains everything we have today on disc{1,2,3} docs
>> and livefs CD. The size of such an DVD would be 1.95 GB for
>> 7.0-RELEASE/i386.
>>
>> For those who don't want or need packages and docs, a smaller CD
>> image with just the install bits (and maybe the fixit FS) could be
>> provided, and of course the small "bootonly" image, but nothing
>> else. Providing five or more CD images is rather last century like,
>> in my opinion.
>
> Yes, but DVD is still in the future.
Why ? I've used Dru's nice blog at
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/creating-your-own-freebsd-70-dvd-22791
(slightly adapted, using mdconfig -d -u /dev/md0) to create my own
bootable dvd (of disc[1-3].iso and docs.iso) in only a few minutes time.
regards,
Hans Lambermont
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