RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future)
eculp
eculp at encontacto.net
Tue Mar 18 07:40:29 PDT 2008
Quoting Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight at mail.ru>:
> Hi Hans Lambermont!
>
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:17:41 +0100; Hans Lambermont wrote about 'Re:
> RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future)':
>
>>>> 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.
I'm somewhat confused as to what the DVD should include and in what
order. When I make a release and include docs which I normally
don't, I end up with 5 cdrom images that I can't directly relate to
Dru's article. The rest seems to be straight forward.
I see that the snapshots are the same:
8.0-CURRENT-200803-i386-bootonly.iso ISO 36320 KB 03/12/08
8.0-CURRENT-200803-i386-disc1.iso ISO 408378 KB 03/12/08
8.0-CURRENT-200803-i386-disc2.iso ISO 364 KB 03/12/08
8.0-CURRENT-200803-i386-docs.iso ISO 252906 KB 03/12/08
8.0-CURRENT-200803-i386-livefs.iso ISO 223078 KB 03/12/08
My question is which of these would be recommended to include in the
DVD and in what order? Dru doesn't mention the livefs or bootonly and
has a disc3. I guess I could download the 7.0 release, mount and
compare.. . . . . but there must be other clueless folks that wonder
about this also.
Thanks,
ed
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