On 11/4/25 13:59, Graham Perrin wrote:
On 04/11/2025 16:21, Lars Tunkrans wrote:
… no Graphics drivers on the install-DVD.iso. these should be added …
At a glance: 234 MiB for nvidia-drm-kmod, 32 MiB for drm-kmod, 1 MiB
for virtualbox-ose-additions.
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freebsd-stable:
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/003544.html>
We don't have the final packages built yet. Once those are available
I'll be looking at what the best set is to pack into 4.7 GB.
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You could compress the assets in a read-while-compressed format that is
automounted.
Both uzip and zip can save up to 60% of storage space.
For uzip you would need a ton of memory to generate the image, but that
is a one-time cost.
Consuming the image is pretty efficient.
Unless there are a lot of hard links or special files, fuse-zip from
ports might work.
Otherwise there is mount-zip, which is not in ports.
I am not sold on zip, though.
I have been trying to build a kernel from source stored in a zip archive
and it does not work.
Doing the same thing with source stored in a uzip image works as expected.
