[Server-devel] Work in progress - F9 install ISO

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Having had a look at the dvd, the size could be reduced by about 200meg by
> deleting everything in the /images directory except for stage2.img and
> re-rolling the iso. Then the boot.iso should be made available by its self,
> should someone who can't boot from usb need to use it.
> But, if the size of the dvd.iso is reduced as above, then it should fit on a
> single standard cdr. Looking for feedback first before I proceed.

Hmmm - are you thinking of a 'thinning' script that cuts all that fat
out post pungi or revisor build? Sounds reasonable to me...

At the moment I'm playing with revisor too. The resulting img is about
the same size as with Pungi :-/ It's only 411MB of packages, and
/images weights 325MB.

cheers,


m
-- 
 martin.langhoff at gmail.com
 martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
 - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff