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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 2013 01:21:07 -0500
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
Cc:        Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10-RC1 ISO image too big
Message-ID:  <20131216062107.GL1446@glenbarber.us>
In-Reply-To: <52AE9A75.9090209@bluerosetech.com>
References:  <20131214095001.GV13385@equilibrium.bsdes.net> <52AD0F73.5050905@ShaneWare.Biz> <20131215105736.51c51073@X220.alogt.com> <52AE9A75.9090209@bluerosetech.com>

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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.
>=20
> Your argument doesn't make sense.  If they need to minimize downloading,
> they should down the bootonly image and fetch/create packages for the por=
ts
> 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.

Glen


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