Gábor Boskovits transcribed 1.3K bytes: > I don't know what we are currently doing to get the installer iso image > sized down, but I caught some discussion yesterday on irc, that the image > is actually very well compressible, and checking the sizes it really is. > > Might that be possible to do something like compressing the root filesystem > image on the iso image, and decompress it from initrd before mounting? > > Or do we already do that? > > It might worth consideration, if that makes the image fit onto a CD.
Are there any reasons why we should really consider CDs a target in 2017-almost-2018? I threw away around 500 CDs + 100 floppy disks with backup data of the last 20 years quiet recently (and only kept originals). All I'm getting here (West Germany) are BluRays and similar opticals. And I predict that even this will go away in the near future. So why focus on the artifical size of optical disks, especially a format that has been considered old by most if not all other distros above the size of tiny distros? If this may sound like harsh criticism: I'm only curious. -- GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://c.n0.is/ng0_pubkeys/tree/keys WWW: https://n0.is
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