svn commit: r257805 - head/release

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 06:53:56PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> Log:
>   Add a 'mini-memstick.img' release target, which will use the
>   'bootonly.iso' components to create a smaller memory stick image.
>   
>   This is useful for system recovery, where a full memstick.img image
>   is not necessarily needed (or wanted).  In addition, it is possible to
>   do bootonly-style installation, where the base.txz, kernel.txz, etc.
>   are fetched from a remote source.
>   

Test builds (with NOPORTS=1 NOSRC=1 NODOC=1 set) provide quite
a significant reduction in file size, compared to the memstick.img.

    FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-memstick.img	    - 570M
    FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-mini-memstick.img    - 221M

Glen

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