From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 22:23:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25013106564A; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:23:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C31152568; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E9764F2.3010802@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:23:46 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Smith References: <1317260554.93406.33.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <4E95987D.5090907@cran.org.uk> <1318427260.35743.7.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <1318427260.35743.7.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Bruce Cran , freebsd-current , freebsd-stable Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:23:47 -0000 On 10/12/2011 06:47, Ken Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 14:39 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: >> On 29/09/2011 02:42, Ken Smith wrote: >>> MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 2ce7b93d28fd7ff37965893f1af3f7fc >>> MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 4affc701f2052edc548274f090e49235 >>> MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-amd64-memstick.img) = e260f2f2122326cb9a93ac83eb006c1c >> >> The -dvd1.iso files seem to be less than a CD, at 610MB. Are they >> expected to contain more data over time, or could 'dvd' be removed? >> > > I was planning on them having package sets. The new installer doesn't > support installing packages like sysinstall had but if I provide Gnome, > KDE, and perhaps a small set of other stuff it would be useful to people > with crummy network connectivity. They could install the packages from > the DVD instead of needing to have everything downloaded. Is there still going to be a CD-sized installer? I find this really useful both at home, and also for virtualized installs. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/