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

[Jerry Vonau]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> 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...
> 
Sure that works too, but the right way would be to fix buildinstall. 
Think I'll go check anaconda's git to see if its still the same. That 
sounds like a bug 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.
> 
Why leave the boot.iso in tree before building disc1, that is what is 
causing the bloat. It was ok when boot.iso was only 15meg, but now...

> cheers,
> 
> 
> m
Jerry