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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:31:44 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r
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From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <7b82334d-92af-92c2-8b09-76d407750ad9@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r
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On 2016-07-12 11:15, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote:
>=20
>> On Jul 12, 2016, at 06:20, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Pawe=C5=82 Tyll wrote on 07/12/2016 01:22:
>>
>>> Those 3 things should shave off about 130MB of the 173MB needed to fi=
t
>>> on  80-min CD-R. But... why this abstract number anyway? Why not 650M=
B
>>> CD-R?  Why  not  overburnable  800MB  90-min CD-R or even 870MB 99-mi=
n
>>> CD-R? :)
>>
>> It is not only about the target media size. The size matters when you =
need to boot some recovery media from you desktop on remote server via KV=
M.
>>
>> And there is one thing I don't understand - why is the bootonly so lar=
ge? I remember days when this fits to 50MB and now it is almost 235MB whi=
ch renders it almost useless. For recoveries and remote installs I always=
 use mfsbsd images (about 45MB).
>=20
> I wholeheartedly agree.
>=20
> It sucks having to transfer more than 50 MB over our work link across a=
 few thousand miles with IPMI remote KVM redirection.
>=20
> Thanks,
> -Ngie
>=20

With IPMI virtual media, you usually do not transfer the entire image,
only read the blocks used by files that you load. Some IPMI clients
provide stats, usually only about 40mb is read from the bootonly cd.
More if you do things like invoke an editor to write a custom /etc/fstab
etc.

--=20
Allan Jude


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