At Mon, 9 Feb 2026 08:04:40 -0700 Charles Chambers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. Huh? I have USB flash drives with a capacity of 64G and USB flash drives with capacities of up to 256G are readily available. A single sided DVD is like 4G. Actually "tiny" compared to USB flash drives... > > Charlie > > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 7:59â¯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... > > > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
