Hi Jerome,

> Instead of copying the ISO, they could just copy the package
> directories directly to the HDD.

True, but not everybody who lacks optical drives has the
infrastructure to extract files from ISOs or diskimages
installed. Of course some readme / howto would help :-)

> But off the top of my head as a rough guide, without
> sources the installed BASE is around 12MB and FULL is
> somewhere around 250MB. Installing FULL with sources
> requires nearly 500MB. Installing all the EXTRAS
> requires an additional 500 or 700MB.

The size of extras is impressive :-o

> some systems boot the USB media in a read-only mode.

While unexpected, it at least is sort of a safety thing...

Regards, Eric



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