From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 12:21:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACED106564A for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E889B8FC21 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:21:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 25904 invoked by uid 89); 18 Mar 2008 12:20:05 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 25861, pid: 25863, t: 5.0219s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.88.7/m:44/d:4673 spam: 3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Received: from unknown (HELO ?212.71.117.70?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@212.71.117.70) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 18 Mar 2008 12:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: <47DFB3BA.9070008@ultra-secure.de> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:21:14 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080226 SUSE/2.0.0.12-1.1 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200803181144.m2IBiWRb012404@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200803181144.m2IBiWRb012404@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future) 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: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:21:22 -0000 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