Hello Odhiambo! Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:37:54AM +0300 you wrote:
> Now I understand you. You just need Dario and Dave to come up with a > version of FreeSBIE that can be downloaded in a few minutes, yes? > I am sure they will not do that, since they already made the scripts > for you to enable you do what you want to achieve. I, for one, *don't* need a small ISO image, because I downloaded the scripts and did what you just suggested. But if I didn't have FreeBSD already installed, the scripts wouldn't be of any real help because I wouldn't have anything to build:(. > You see the point of this thread? They want people to suggest apps to be > added to the iso, not to be removed to make the size of the iso smaller > ;) Yes; I did suggest some programs, but one of the goals seems to be: > http://www.freesbie.org/?section=faq-en # - To make various ISO images available, maybe each one # with its different goals and possible uses. When a new user wants to download FreeSBIE because it's based on -CURRENT or 6.0, which he *doesn't* have but wants to try out, he would probably like a smaller image. At least, there are some users of this type. I don't mean that you should really remove programs from existing sets to make the size smaller:) Just if you serve `various ISO images', that small one could be one of them. > There is the Hungarian hacker, gabor at suveg dot hu, who made an iso > which was just 300MB. Perhaps if you make it worth someone's time, they > can come up with an ISO that matches what you want. > but please define that ISO's contents No packages (if only mc) and a build with make.conf.minimal. Humble, no? But it could be enough for testing basic compatibility (it works). Downloading 600M without being sure it will even boot up is not for everyone. Actually, if geom_uzip did work flawlessly, even a complete base system could fit in less than 100M. Hell, I could have built it myself already, but where/how would I serve it? > The point is, whatever we can fit on the ISO image will be fitted in > there is there are no ugly apps associated with it that we do not > want. Kindly read Dario's initial mail that led to this thread. Dario wrote: > ... FreeSBIE could be useful to test the compatibility > with this interesting release. That is, for people that don't have 6.0 installed, no? -- DoubleF No virus detected in this message. Ehrm, wait a minute... /kernel: pid 56921 (antivirus), uid 32000: exited on signal 9 Oh yes, no virus:)
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