memstick.img size adjustment

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 18:24:55 +1100 (EST)
Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:37:04 -0400, David Boyd wrote:
>  > Would it be in anyone else's interest to have the size of the
>  > memstick images for 10.0-RELEASE+ adjusted upward a little (say
>  > 64MB) to allow for some free space on the filesystem?
>  > 
>  > We have custom installation scripts that  add "misc.txz" to the
>  > bsdinstall distribution list.  These scripts want "misc.txz" to be
>  > able to grow to a few megabytes.
>  > 
>  > The current image is too large for 512MB USB drives, so it would
>  > seem that as long as the image remains smaller than 1GB it will
>  > still fit on current devices.
> 
> Can you still get 1GB sticks?  I haven't seen anything less than 4GB

this does not matter. There are still countries around where a 4 GB
download is a problem. Having an image with the size of a CD or at
least not crossing 1GB is helpful.

Erich