Re: Why is the DVD image so large?

Dennis Clarke wrote in <d7757e06-1199-42a3-9b41-cc7d210fce0b@blastwave.org>:
> FreeBSD-15.0-BETA4-amd64-dvd1.iso     5150257152  2025-Oct-31 12:38
> FreeBSD-15.0-BETA4-amd64-dvd1.iso.xz  4276839812  2025-Oct-31 12:38
> 
> Now the dvd1 image seems a tad large for an actual DVD media. I think
> this has been the case for a very long time now.
> 
> Why is the DVD image so large?  Can something/anything be trimmed out?

for 15.0, the dvd1 (but not disc1) includes both dist sets and pkgbase
packages, which means twice as much space is used for the base system.
i'm not sure if this is enough by itself to push it over the DVD size
limit, but you could check the size of the two repositories on the disc.

for 16.0 we'll only ship the pkgbase packages and the non-pkgbase
install will be handled in a different way, which will reduce the
size.