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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:23:46 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu>
Cc:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...
Message-ID:  <4E9764F2.3010802@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1318427260.35743.7.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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On 10/12/2011 06:47, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 14:39 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
>> On 29/09/2011 02:42, Ken Smith wrote:
>>> MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 2ce7b93d28fd7ff37965893f1af3f7fc
>>> MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 4affc701f2052edc548274f090e49235
>>> MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-amd64-memstick.img) = e260f2f2122326cb9a93ac83eb006c1c
>>
>> The -dvd1.iso files seem to be less than a CD, at 610MB. Are they 
>> expected to contain more data over time, or could 'dvd' be removed?
>>
> 
> I was planning on them having package sets.  The new installer doesn't
> support installing packages like sysinstall had but if I provide Gnome,
> KDE, and perhaps a small set of other stuff it would be useful to people
> with crummy network connectivity.  They could install the packages from
> the DVD instead of needing to have everything downloaded.

Is there still going to be a CD-sized installer? I find this really
useful both at home, and also for virtualized installs.



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