RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future)

[Rainer Duffner]

Oliver Fromme schrieb:
> 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.

Yeah, but he wants an official, rubber-stamp kind-of, Daemon-branded, ISO.

;-)

Must order one of these DVDs myself, though.


cheers,
Rainer