er... someone blamed documentation of some sort... ah, here it is: *One area where Lubuntu has gained weight is the help documentation for > Gnumeric and Sylpheed, as well as the Gnome language packs.*
quoted from the lubuntu-desktop list archive, March, 20, 2011. On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:39 PM, PCMan <[email protected]> wrote: > So who is eating the spaces? > Many some disk-analyzing tools are needed here. > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Mikhail Maksimov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, list. > > > >> I suspect the number could be lowered to around 900000000 for a 1.8GB > size > >> check, but I have not tested that yet. > > > > No it can not. Tests done on alpha3 show that the system requires at > least > > 2000 MB ("decimal" M) just to install with almost no free space left. Too > > bad Lubuntu is no longer lightweight in terms of disk footprint. > > > > Regards, > > Mikhail > > > > PS I know that the original letter is two weeks old :) > > > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Marsden <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> My workaround works! > >> > >> Replying to myself: > >> > >> On 05/01/2011 12:29 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > >> > >> > There is a file within the Lubuntu 11.04 ISO called > >> > casper/filesystem.size but it seems to be unchanged since 2010-09-06 > and > >> > I don't yet know what if anything actually uses it :) > >> > >> Based on Julien's very handy pointer to the commit that broke this for > >> us, I just edited the file casper/filesystem.size in the Lubuntu 11.04 > >> ISO image to say > >> > >> 1370000000 > >> > >> (a round-ish number about half the value that was previously in the > >> file, plus 50MB as a safety margin!) and then updated the md5sum.txt > >> file to reflect that edit, and created myself a modified ISO image from > >> the result. > >> > >> That's a pretty trivial change, but, unlike the official 11.04 image, it > >> installs and runs fine in a 3GB virtual disk, at least in my initial > >> testing here (under VirtualBox 4.0.6). > >> > >> So, we seem to have a code-free workaround :) I suspect the number > >> could be lowered to around 900000000 for a 1.8GB size check, but I have > >> not tested that yet. > >> > >> I can make this "hacked" ISO available for download, but it is a bit > >> 'dubious' at this point from a support point of view, since it does not > >> 'say' anywhere in its menus etc. that I modified it! I need it to refer > >> to itself as 11.04.jm1 or something, so it is clearly not the official > >> Lubuntu 11.04 version, if there is going to be much use of it. > >> > >> If anyone has an urgent need for this ISO image, let me know. It is now > >> 1am here, and I have to go to work tomorrow (today!!) so I don't have > >> time to create the ".jm1" identified image right now... I need some > sleep > >> :) > >> > >> Jonathan > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > >
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