On Oct 3, 12:32pm, Curt Sampson wrote:
> Subject: Re: Upcoming Gateway! CD-ROM - you decide!
> I think this Gateway! CD-ROM is an excellent idea.
>
> On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Markus Illenseer wrote:
>
> >  The next volume will be a two-CD-set.  But even then, I currently believe
> > the space is limited.  Have you yet seen how large the NetBSD 1.2
> > distribution is?  My last "du -k" showed 550MB for the mostly gzipped
> > archives.
>
> This may be a bit misleading. In the i386 directory, for example,
> we have the full distribution as a single .tar.gz file for each
> section under the Tarfiles directory, and the whole thing again as
> split-up files under other directories. There's obviously no need
> to include more than one of these on the CD. (My vote would be for
> the large tarfiles myself, since I find those much easier to deal
> with, but I don't know if the installation software works with them
> because I generally unpack the files myself.)
>
> 13 architectures times, say, 25MB per architecture (the binaries
> tend be about 20MB; chuck in another 5MB for tools, disk images
> and kernels) gives you about 325MB of data. So looking at the basic
> set of stuff, we've got:
>
>     Packed binaries for 13 architectures		325 MB
>     Packed source tree					30 MB
>     Unpacked source tree				130 MB
>
>     Total						485 MB
>
> So this leaves you about 165 MB of space, which is plenty for a
> single bootable system. You might possibly be able to pack two
> bootable systems in that sort of space, though I don't know if I'd
> want to try it, or if it would even be possible to make a CD that
> would boot the appropriate version of NetBSD on both, say, an Amiga
> and a Sparc.

Sorry to be a spoil-sport but some architectures don't support shared libraries
yet. This makes a bit of a difference to the space requirements.

Cheers

Rob

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