Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:10:20 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future) Message-ID: <200803071010.m27AAKZ6000482@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <slrnft21b5.2cho.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net> References: <slrnft21b5.2cho.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net>
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> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org This sybject has nothing to do with stable@. > Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Posting to 2 FreeBSD lists is deprecated. hackers@ is for releases. Attempting to shrink to one list, this posted with: To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org bcc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Vadim Goncharov wrote: > Hi! > > 7.0-RELEASE images came out with FIVE disks - disc 1 to 3 and separate LiveFS > and docs. What do they contain? I can guess that 2 and 3 are pure packages so > I don't need to download them if I want to compile out from ports. And in > previous releases I had to download the disc1 ONLY as it had LiveFS also - > a very good improvement since 4.x times where disc2 with only LiveFS, mostly > useless all the time, took separate disk. > > But now release announcement says that for LiveFS I need TWO disks - both > disc1 and livefs disk. WHY? Why not to pack they both to a single disc1, > this was very comfortable. > > I suspect this separation is due to sizes od docs etc. - but CD drives can now > handle even 700 MBs of data, and disc1 for i386 occupies only 509M, though > disc2 is 694M, yes. > > May be it is desirable to compress docs and other base system parts with > bzip2 -9 instead of gzip? > > P.S. And may be it is good also to resurrect miniinst disk for > Depenguinator project? :) > > -- > WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:vadim_nuclight@mail.ru > [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight] > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 is spam.
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