Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future)

>	To: freebsd-stable_at_freebsd.org
This sybject has nothing to do with stable_at_.
>	Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
Posting to 2 FreeBSD lists is deprecated. 
hackers_at_ is for releases.

Attempting to shrink to one list, this posted with:
	To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
	bcc: freebsd-stable_at_freebsd.org, 
	Reply-To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org

Vadim Goncharov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 7.0-RELEASE images came out with FIVE disks - disc 1 to 3 and separate LiveFS
> and docs. What do they contain? I can guess that 2 and 3 are pure packages so
> I don't need to download them if I want to compile out from ports. And in
> previous releases I had to download the disc1 ONLY as it had LiveFS also -
> a very good improvement since 4.x times where disc2 with only LiveFS, mostly
> useless all the time, took separate disk.
> 
> But now release announcement says that for LiveFS I need TWO disks - both
> disc1 and livefs disk. WHY? Why not to pack they both to a single disc1,
> this was very comfortable.
> 
> I suspect this separation is due to sizes od docs etc. - but CD drives can now
> handle even 700 MBs of data, and disc1 for i386 occupies only 509M, though
> disc2 is 694M, yes.
> 
> May be it is desirable to compress docs and other base system parts with
> bzip2 -9 instead of gzip?
> 
> P.S. And may be it is good also to resurrect miniinst disk for
> Depenguinator project? :)


> 
> -- 
> WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181       mailto:vadim_nuclight_at_mail.ru
> [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight]
> 
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-stable_at_freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"
> 


Julian
-- 
Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com
	Mail just Ascii plain text.  HTML & Base64 is spam.