Frank Ludolph wrote: > Glynn Foster wrote: >> I agree there's benefits to each approach. My preference is that a >> software selection should appear after the Disks screen, since the >> user could dynamically check and uncheck selections to see if they can >> get under the current disk size (as opposed to having to go back to >> adjust their software selection if a disk with enough size isn't >> available). >> > While 'after' does help fit software onto a disk as you suggest, > 'before' helps to properly size a new partition. All of which might be > moot given what Shawn has been saying...
If you can figure out: * how to get about a hundred megabytes (I'm guessing here) of temporary space * which packages are part of the live cd that won't be part of the installed system * which "unpackaged" files are on the live cd that won't be part of the system * which packages are to be installed into the image ...then you can get a reasonably close aggregate install size. Once these three things happen in pkg(5): * SAT solver integration * new Catalog format integration * api addition to get operation sizes I want to be clear that I wasn't trying to suggest that the functionality you're trying to have isn't useful or possible, but it is very difficult given the network-based install angle + the cpio image of the live media. If this was a giant install dvd (not live media) and you weren't performing a network-based install, things would be different... Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
