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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:15:10 -0700
From:      "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        =?utf-8?Q?Pawe=C5=82_Tyll?= <ofca@ofca.me>, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, "Conrad E. Meyer" <cem@freebsd.org>, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r
Message-ID:  <892ABC57-2BC0-4A56-97AF-5AE28CDBE0DB@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5784EEA7.2030102@quip.cz>
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> On Jul 12, 2016, at 06:20, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:
>=20
> Pawe=C5=82 Tyll wrote on 07/12/2016 01:22:
>=20
>> Those 3 things should shave off about 130MB of the 173MB needed to =
fit
>> on  80-min CD-R. But... why this abstract number anyway? Why not =
650MB
>> CD-R?  Why  not  overburnable  800MB  90-min CD-R or even 870MB =
99-min
>> CD-R? :)
>=20
> It is not only about the target media size. The size matters when you =
need to boot some recovery media from you desktop on remote server via =
KVM.
>=20
> And there is one thing I don't understand - why is the bootonly so =
large? I remember days when this fits to 50MB and now it is almost 235MB =
which renders it almost useless. For recoveries and remote installs I =
always use mfsbsd images (about 45MB).

I wholeheartedly agree.

It sucks having to transfer more than 50 MB over our work link across a =
few thousand miles with IPMI remote KVM redirection.

Thanks,
-Ngie

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