Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future)

Vadim Goncharov wrote:
 > Hans Lambermont wrote:
 > > [...]
 > > > > Therefore, my opinion is that we should publish a DVD image in the
 > > > > future that contains everything we have today on disc{1,2,3} docs
 > > > > and livefs CD.  The size of such an DVD would be 1.95 GB for
 > > > > 7.0-RELEASE/i386.
 > > > > 
 > > > > For those who don't want or need packages and docs, a smaller CD
 > > > > image with just the install bits (and maybe the fixit FS) could be
 > > > > provided, and of course the small "bootonly" image, but nothing
 > > > > else.  Providing five or more CD images is rather last century like,
 > > > > in my opinion.
 > > > 
 > > > Yes, but DVD is still in the future.
 > > Why ? I've used Dru's nice blog at
 > > http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/creating-your-own-freebsd-70-dvd-22791
 > > (slightly adapted, using mdconfig -d -u /dev/md0) to create my own
 > > bootable dvd (of disc[1-3].iso and docs.iso) in only a few minutes time.
 > 
 > Yours own, but not official.

What is the practical difference?  It's quite easy do
create such a DVD, even for FreeBSD novice users.

I've also mentioned several times (and you have ignored
it several times) that you can buy an official DVD.
Some vendors also offer FreeBSD DVDs for very low prices,
e.g. the FreeBSD 7.0 DVD (double layer, i.e. 8 GB) from
the German Lehmanns bookshop is 10 Euro, that's $6.50.

Best regards
   Oliver

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