On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:41:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> - Why is the entire Debian keyring (6MB) on the CD? > Probably to support checking signatures of Release files.
Do we use that at all? :-) >> - Why are the net_drivers, cd_drivers and other floppies (at least 7-8MB) in >> /install? They do not seem to be used in the installation. > Probably so if you have a CD drive that cannot boot, you can copy these > to floppies and use them to let d-i get at your CDROM. That would be quite useless for 95% of the users. I don't think a "minimal network install" ISO should care for that. :-) >> - Why are there two different kernel udebs (2.4.20 and 2.4.22)? (Several more >> megabytes.) Really, what do you need the kernel-iamge udebs for at all? > We need at least one to install onto the base system. Well, we do not need more that one, and the businesscard ISO will have to fetch a lot of stuff from the net anyhow, so we gain very little by putting this on the CD. >> - What do we need the entire Contents-i386.gz (6MB) from sarge for? > From sarge? There is a "sarge/Contents-i386.gz" on the CD that is 6MB. Being so big, I'd suppose it contains information about _all_ sarge packages, not only those on the CD. I don't see what we need it for. >> The woody netinst images are ~10MB. I think we should be easily able to trim >> 30MB off the current business card ISOs, and we definitely should do so :-) > Maybe you're looking for something more like the cd_image target in > debian-installer/build/? IIRC it's < 10 mb. Well, if it's installable, why don't we distribute that? We're pointing people to "use these images for sarge network install if you want to test", and I don't see why they should be any bigger than needed. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
