Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:21:14 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future) Message-ID: <47DFB3BA.9070008@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <200803181144.m2IBiWRb012404@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200803181144.m2IBiWRb012404@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme schrieb:
> Vadim Goncharov wrote:
> > Hans Lambermont 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.
> >
> > Yours own, but not official.
>
> What is the practical difference? It's quite easy do
> create such a DVD, even for FreeBSD novice users.
>
> I've also mentioned several times (and you have ignored
> it several times) that you can buy an official DVD.
Yeah, but he wants an official, rubber-stamp kind-of, Daemon-branded, ISO.
;-)
Must order one of these DVDs myself, though.
cheers,
Rainer
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