Because pretty much all optical drives take CD's. I'd consider key-type USB, but they don't have the file volume of a DVD.
Charlie On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 7:59 AM Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > [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... > -- Charlie [email protected]
