[email protected] wrote: >Can anyone offer any advice on how to cut down the size of an >autoinstall DVD (CD)? > >I have one stripped of most packages, with system utilities only, and >the image is still over 800MB. > >I'd like to fit it onto a CD.
Why do you care that much about the size? These days most people are using USB sticks anyway. And blank DVD-R media costs no more than CD-R if you do need optical. The biggest thing that has made Debian media grow in the last couple of releases is the addition of non-free-firmware. If you're *100%* sure you don't need that, then build without it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

