Den 2025-11-03 kl. 00:59, Chris wrote :
On 2025-11-01 12:44, Lars Tunkrans wrote:
Den 2025-11-01 kl. 15:06, skrev Dennis Clarke:
* * * I am happy to ask the dumb questions * * *
This morning I see that we have FreeBSD 15.0 BETA4 iso stuff :
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/?C=M&O=D
For doing a test install onto some real hardware I felt it would be
nice to try out the iso images for ye old fashioned DVD. Worth a try?
However I see :
FreeBSD-15.0-BETA4-amd64-dvd1.iso 5150257152 2025-Oct-31 12:38
FreeBSD-15.0-BETA4-amd64-dvd1.iso.xz 4276839812 2025-Oct-31 12:38
Now the dvd1 image seems a tad large for an actual DVD media. I think
this has been the case for a very long time now.
Why is the DVD image so large? Can something/anything be trimmed out?
HI Dennis
Beta3 did not have the KDE Packages and was 4 GB .
BETA4
has the KDE packages and is 4.8 GB
Just 100 MB to large for a standard DVD of 4.7 GB
I looked at the cost of DVD-R media and DVD-DL ( Double
Layer )
media at Amazon . And prices is very similar for 50 DVD &
DVD-DL
spindle packs.
There is no economic reason for not buying 8.5 GB DVD-DL
media .
SO its possible to put even more packages on a DVD-DL_ISO
( Up to
8,5 GB ) which would make offline installation a lot easier.
How does this pertain to reader/writers? Different burners have
different capabilities.
*The DVD-R DL format was released to the market in 2005. (
according to the Google AI & Wikipedia ) *
Your DVD Writer/Reader needs to have been bought for more
than 15 years ago, to not support DVD-DL format.
basically three Computer generations.
All thats needed is to Document that DVD-DL media is
required
for the DVD-DL_ISO
Regards
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Lars Tunkrans
Oracle SPARC/Solaris System Administrator
Fujitsu M12 SPARC Specilaist
