From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 27 09:25:22 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 ESMTP id 5C70E743 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:25:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) 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 BEAF42F6E for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r9R9PCZs092941; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:25:13 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:25:12 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Erich Dollansky Subject: Re: memstick.img size adjustment In-Reply-To: <20131027160143.5ff81ada@X220.ovitrap.com> Message-ID: <20131027191905.S80429@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <0BEF1ADC0CFB448F9CB7264B652C4643@sneezy> <20131027144834.T80429@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20131027160143.5ff81ada@X220.ovitrap.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: David Boyd , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:25:22 -0000 On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 16:01:43 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 18:24:55 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:37:04 -0400, David Boyd wrote: > > > Would it be in anyone else's interest to have the size of the > > > memstick images for 10.0-RELEASE+ adjusted upward a little (say > > > 64MB) to allow for some free space on the filesystem? > > > > > > We have custom installation scripts that add "misc.txz" to the > > > bsdinstall distribution list. These scripts want "misc.txz" to be > > > able to grow to a few megabytes. > > > > > > The current image is too large for 512MB USB drives, so it would > > > seem that as long as the image remains smaller than 1GB it will > > > still fit on current devices. > > > > Can you still get 1GB sticks? I haven't seen anything less than 4GB > > this does not matter. There are still countries around where a 4 GB > download is a problem. Having an image with the size of a CD or at > least not crossing 1GB is helpful. Agreed, Erich. That doesn't preclude adding a 4GB memstick to the mix, or at least including a script so those who want one could make one up, perhaps most ideally from the downloaded DVD image? I do have a DVD reader but no burner, and a stick's a lot handier to take to a store. I'll have a closer look over Daniel's script towards that end. And David's point stands; some extra space for mods would be useful. Dunno about 10, but a 9.1 i386 memstick is well short of CD size: /dev/da0a 609M 568M -7.9M 101% /media cheers, Ian