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

[Jerry Vonau]

Jerry Vonau wrote:
> 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...
> 

patch to F9's pungi
http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/diet.patch