FreeBSD 10-RC1 ISO image too big

Royce Williams royce at tycho.org
Sun Dec 15 03:05:07 UTC 2013


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Erich Dollansky
<erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 12:39:55 +1030
> Shane Ambler <FreeBSD at ShaneWare.Biz> wrote:

>> Any reason you need cd media?
>
> it is not the CD media, it is simply the bandwidth needed. There are
> many FreeBSD people around this globe which do not have the luck of a
> 100MBit/s connection. Every byte which is not on a media counts here.
>
> All others can download the DVD image.

There are also people who can't afford a new system, but can repurpose
an old or donated one.

Royce


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