You don't need that much for OS really if you compress the underlying FS (be that ISO9660 or UFS) with the mkuzip. Just as an extreme example of that, we have liveCD-type image that deals with provisioning a new systems and troubleshooting issues on around 40MB ISO. That includes nearly all of the stock base system tools (modulo compilers and other dev related bits, fully linked ones, not crunch), full amd64 kernel (compressed separately) and complete python 2.7 environment along with necessary dependencies. So if your live OS takes 300MB+, it will be compressed down to under 100MB by just using GEOM_UZIP. Whatever people say here about moving to USB, ISOs are quite useful for setting up VMs as well as for remove booting off IP KVMs. JFYI. -Maxim P.S. It would be cool to have a loader that can read off CLOOP partition, but it's just in my wet dreams now. On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2016-07-11 18:33, Chris H wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:46:04 +0300 Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw_at_zxy.spb.ru> >> wrote >> >> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 09:41:44PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 03:32:34PM -0600, Alan Somers wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws> >>>>>> >>>>> wrote: >> Hi, >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Just downloaded the amd64 BETA1 ISO (873MB) and tried to burn a CD on >>>>>>> Windows 10. It complained that the ISO is too big for my 700 MB CD-r. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The bootonly iso (281MB) burns and runs ok. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>> Ronald. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Please open a PR. Those images should be able to fit on a CD. >>>>> >>>> >>>> This was actually a known "going to be problem" thing for 11.0. I'm >>>> looking into how to fix this for 11.0-RELEASE, but right now, there is >>>> not much more we can exclude from it. :( >>>> >>> Can't it use the compressed iso format, or is it already using that >> format. Sorry haven't checked. >> >>> >>> Reduce GENERIC to MINIMAL? >>> >> >> --Chris >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org >> " >> >> > 380MB of the data on disc1 is the distsets, which are already .txz (max > compression). That doesn't leave much room for the live OS on the disk. > > -- > Allan Jude > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > >Received on Mon Jul 11 2016 - 21:08:38 UTC
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