From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 8 15:52:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1DF106566C for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:52:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576D08FC1B for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:52:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so528015nfb.33 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:52:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:sender; bh=5zWDjR9Oruq0DMkSqPdNeOuoT4v5PWVy9JhxTvjSTe4=; b=kQ9d2tF69Q2JE2yLnsnWsEhWe2DB2k/KvfbDuoVbE5ss4K9QDbF1Xe1zBLd3tOMN+s16wRvNeZMZK3JsG/lhxHmuhlH3UJ82asUBX/xUh79zsQT1GpiLcF/OP/x2bMGdHkUk64pGvIU8FTL2vBTyB1cqOjdUmTeZfJTu9cWE8Q0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:sender; b=YxHPXiTEVt5RqI5QFul6SaA0l1dr23FUIomf1uoVUD11oo9o83jyr1q2pPO+sHgIaGMO1weciaglbCSqaiyBt59OrePFAD5PuzPb5m5/9sKqS2YOqqDVPwxgZhsmxQThGZsF35tcEX+JNMsrT2yrgSP4JphmBzrPrlUGwVdT0is= Received: by 10.78.167.12 with SMTP id p12mr7751910hue.8.1204990020924; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:27:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from epsilon.local ( [83.144.140.96]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y34sm10597985iky.6.2008.03.08.07.26.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:27:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47D2B040.8060304@fnop.net> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:26:56 +0000 From: Rui Paulo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: Rui Paulo Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:52:13 -0000 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. Well, technically, you don't need both discs. LiveFS CD is bootable. Regarding to the other question, it was split because, with the introduction of new userland tools, disc1 grew to a size that did not fit on one CDROM. Regards. -- Rui Paulo