Why is there no mini-iso any more?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Download the floppies then do an install from FTP while dialed in,
no need to bother with an ISO.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of fbsd_user
>Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 6:21 AM
>To: Baldur Gislason; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: RE: Why is there no mini-iso any more?
>
>
>Some dingdong in the release build team took it upon himself to
>decide that it was no longer necessary and left it out in 5.4. Check
>the questions list archives for more details if you need them. A PR
>was submitted about this and the normal typical response was given
>that this is a voluntary maintainer group and you get what they what
>to give you, and if you don't like it then use something else.  Sure
>is a very poor attitude to be showing toward the dialup users who
>regular use the mini.iso because its small size is quick to download
>over dialup connection.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Baldur
>Gislason
>Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 9:02 AM
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Why is there no mini-iso any more?
>
>
>I was wondering why the latest releases don't have a mini iso? (An
>iso with only base installation, no extra packages)
>
>Baldur
>
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