On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 02:16:13PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > Hi all, > > Debian 13.0.0 netinst for amd64/arm64/armhf have grown too large to fit on > actual CD (700MB). I can not find or remember any discussion on this. I also > do not really care; yet I would suggest placing them with the other DVD isos > if the size increase is indeed intentional or unavoidable. >
You are correct but this has been the case for a while now, probably since non-free firmware was included. For most people, this is not a problem because they will install from a flash drive (or maybe now http booting). Very few people now use CD-RW these days. Fairly sure this has also been the case for a couple of years in Bookworm. > Quite surprisingly, ppc64el/riscv64/s390x netinsts are 100+MB smaller. So > there may be something going on anyway... > > Thanks, > Anne Bezemer > All the very best, as ever, Andrew Cater ([email protected])
