Re: F14-build size

2011-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: There is some discussion about the usability of F14 builds in relation to their size [1] F14 builds are _really big_ for the 1GB XO-1 NAND leaving very little space for the user. If a few videos or wiki is

Re: F14-build size

2011-05-25 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:50:03AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: [1] http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4965.msg33320#msg33320 This poster kimtoufectis somehow conflates build size with swap space, but the important points are covered; that there is little disk space for

Re: F14-build size

2011-05-25 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Wed, 5/25/11, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: From: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org Subject: Re: F14-build size To: Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com Cc: OLPC Devel devel@lists.laptop.org Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 4:13 AM On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:50:03AM -0700

Re: F14-build size

2011-05-25 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Wed, 5/25/11, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: You say that stripping firmware, dri and locale saves 50% of the disk space. Have you measured this or is this guesswork? It seems unlikely to me that these items would constitute ~350mb of compressed space, but I won't argue

Re: F14-build size

2011-05-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 5/25/11, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: You say that stripping firmware, dri and locale saves 50% ... No. I said will increase the *available* space by almost 50%. eg from ~120MB today to

Re: F14-build size

2011-05-25 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Wed, 5/25/11, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: From: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com Subject: Re: F14-build size To: Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com Cc: Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org, OLPC Devel devel@lists.laptop.org Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011