Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:47:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM image Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970917093654.6050A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970917162249.2226A-100000@dada10.mdstud.chalmers.se>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Tommy Hallgren wrote: > I read that the Debian group has made a CDROM image of their release, > maybe this would be a good idea for the FreeBSD community as well? > > The idea is nice, just download the image, burn it, make some floppys and > reboot. > > Mvh: Tommy When we burn a CD-ROM here, the only place it gets nasty is in the packages section. I can not get our CD burner to respect the symlinks; it actually copies the file into two places, eg: rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin - 18 Sep 15 21:47 /usr/bin/vi@ -> /usr/local/bin/vim would actually have two copies of the file, one in /usr/bin and one in /usr/local/bin in this case. That doubles the amount of room needed for the packages, and then the image exceeds the 650MB limit. The other issue with the packages is the nomenclature. "Romeo" naming truncates the names into DOS format. Joliet works, but not all software supports it. I think the heirarchy for the packages could benefit from a different format, possibly eliminating the "All" directory, making the filenames DOS compatible, and having an index file that would be read and parsed during the install. Obviously the system in place has its justification. Theses suggestions only deal with the CD burning process. Anyone else have similar experience? Kevin
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