Re: Why is the DVD image so large?

[Chris]

On 2025-11-01 13:01, Lars Tunkrans wrote:

Den 2025-11-01 kl. 17:19, skrev Sulev-Madis Silber:

On November 1, 2025 4:06:48 PM GMT+02:00, Dennis Clarke<dcla...@blastwave.org> wrote:

Why is the DVD image so large?  Can something/anything be trimmed out?

it's kind of funny



which he did! even overachieved the task slightly, apparently?



or maybe make image remotely or locally customizable





or something else

because cperciva was just asked to fill up the apparant "empty" wasted space seen in beta3 dvd so in order to not generate full war we would need to either cut back, remove or abadon actual dvd size in some images or provide separate images (tiny, medium, huge) which are just offline repos or finally start shipping images with various de's which users ask but which can't be easily done as disks don't self-expand. and then you need to archive it all too p.s.: btw, i was not able to install ports from b3 dvd for some reason, i didn't check why and completed the test setup from remote

HI

Yes I started this .....

but is 4.8 GB ,

8.5 GB discs.

I notices that B2 did not include the DVD: ./packages/repo directory and contents. this was fixed in B3. but B3 was Void of KDE packages. B4 now have KDE packages I propose to abandon DVD 4.7 GB format and that future DVD-ISO packages use DVD-DL

Why stop there? Why not abandon DVDs entirely and require 16GB and require a 16+ GB thumb drive? IMHO The easier for someone to get FreeBSD on their target, the better. It used to be on CD.

Now it's available in DVD. But why restrict it to the largest DVD possible?

Regards

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