On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 08:32:50PM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm building what hopefully will be R4.0-rc4 and I have two > reflections: > > 1. After upgrading templates to fedora-26 and debian-9, there is no way > the installation image will fit on DVD. Right now it takes 4908384256 > bytes. We probably could try to cut it down by eliminating even more > packages from templates, but I think there is no much non-essential > packages left there. For example we no longer ship vim in debian-9. > Right now I see two options: > - abandon the goal of fitting the image on DVD (I'd go for this) > - exclude some template from default installation... > > 2. grub suck at booting xen.efi (or rather: xen.efi is rather picky > about its environment). On many systems, booting xen.efi without grub > (using rEFInd, EFI shell, or simply by renaming it over BOOTX64.efi) > helps with boot problems. An idea: do not use grub on UEFI installation. > Downside: you loose boot menu - no way to choose or not media > verification, or rescue mode. And no way to adjust boot arguments, > needed on some platforms to workaround UEFI bugs... To do that, you'd > need to edit EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg using some other means. > Alternative: keep grub there, but provide an instruction how to boot > xen.efi directly, in short: > > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt # assuming /dev/sdb1 is installation USB > mv /mnt/EFI/BOOT/xen.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi > mv /mnt/EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.cfg > umount /mnt > > After such operation, media verification would fail, obviously. > > Any input on the above?
I would , of course, favour a Debian system as default. However, it would be useful if you could give the relative template sizes on the current build. As far as trimming the templates, there is some scope for this, but one of the problems is that people want what THEY like. Look at issue 1781 for a great example of this. Cant dom0 be trimmed further? I am strongly in favour of an image that fits on a DVD - would there be any reason not to offer Fedora and Debian as alternatives if the size issue proves insuperable? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/20180119231102.3xc76ilefiq3xo3a%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
