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 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
