Re: [LDWG] additional requirements to be able to install KDE DESKTOP on FBSD15 from install media.
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:15:04 UTC
On 11/4/25 13:59, Graham Perrin wrote: > On 04/11/2025 16:21, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > >> … no Graphics drivers on the install-DVD.iso. these should be added … >> > > At a glance: 234 MiB for nvidia-drm-kmod, 32 MiB for drm-kmod, 1 MiB > for virtualbox-ose-additions. > > Additional context, for readers who do not also subscribe to > freebsd-stable: > > <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/003544.html> > > >> We don't have the final packages built yet. Once those are available >> I'll be looking at what the best set is to pack into 4.7 GB. >> >> -- >> Colin Percival >> FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer >> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly >> paranoid >> > You could compress the assets in a read-while-compressed format that is automounted. Both uzip and zip can save up to 60% of storage space. For uzip you would need a ton of memory to generate the image, but that is a one-time cost. Consuming the image is pretty efficient. Unless there are a lot of hard links or special files, fuse-zip from ports might work. Otherwise there is mount-zip, which is not in ports. I am not sold on zip, though. I have been trying to build a kernel from source stored in a zip archive and it does not work. Doing the same thing with source stored in a uzip image works as expected.