Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 22:25:57 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10-RC1 ISO image too big Message-ID: <52AE9CF5.7070408@bluerosetech.com> In-Reply-To: <20131216062107.GL1446@glenbarber.us> References: <20131214095001.GV13385@equilibrium.bsdes.net> <52AD0F73.5050905@ShaneWare.Biz> <20131215105736.51c51073@X220.alogt.com> <52AE9A75.9090209@bluerosetech.com> <20131216062107.GL1446@glenbarber.us>
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On 12/15/2013 10:21 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:15:17PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> On 12/14/2013 6:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: >>>> Any reason you need cd media? >>> >>> it is not the CD media, it is simply the bandwidth needed. There are >>> many FreeBSD people around this globe which do not have the luck of a >>> 100MBit/s connection. Every byte which is not on a media counts here. >> >> Your argument doesn't make sense. If they need to minimize downloading, >> they should down the bootonly image and fetch/create packages for the ports >> they need. Anything else is going to spend bytes downloading things they >> won't use. > > No, bootonly.iso does not contain the base system, so download time will > be spent on downloading base.txz, kernel.txz, at minimum. But that will still be fewer downloaded bytes because the CD image contains extras they don't need.home | help
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