On Feb 10, 2012, at 4:55 PM, John Novack wrote: > Michael Keuter wrote: >>> >> New 4 GB cards cost 15-20 €, so why we discussing this here? >> > Couple of reasons. > Curiosity regarding the growth of the image > Some hardware that some choose to use won't even work with such a large > flash, though most will with 1 or 2 G > > Part of the challenge of using small machines is to keep them small, and > reduce feature creep and bloat. > > John Novack
Just to be clear, the standard default AstLinux 0.7.10 image was 39MB (with a 128MB FAT16 partition) and AstLinux 1.0.1 is 38MB (with a 256MB FAT16 partition) The FAT16 partition is used to store RUNNIX (and a revert to previous image) and AstLinux (and a revert to previous image). With a 128MB FAT16 partition that limits AstLinux run images to about 50MB. Plenty of headroom for today, but it was decided to increase that for AstLinux 1.x to be future proof for new installations, also considering new flash storage less then 1MB today is uncommon. Note that users who upgraded from 0.7.x to 1.0.x still have a 128MB FAT16 partition. Developers building their own AstLinux images can easily create 128MB FAT16 partitions using the "./scripts/astlinux-makeimage" script. Considering that the AstLinux 1.0.1 image is no bigger than previous 0.7 images, keeping our images lean-and-mean is a very important design goal. Lonnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
