Jerry Vonau wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jerry Vonau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Having had a look at the dvd, the size could be reduced by about 200meg by >>> deleting everything in the /images directory except for stage2.img and >>> re-rolling the iso. Then the boot.iso should be made available by its self, >>> should someone who can't boot from usb need to use it. >>> But, if the size of the dvd.iso is reduced as above, then it should fit on a >>> single standard cdr. Looking for feedback first before I proceed. >> Hmmm - are you thinking of a 'thinning' script that cuts all that fat >> out post pungi or revisor build? Sounds reasonable to me... >> > Sure that works too, but the right way would be to fix buildinstall. > Think I'll go check anaconda's git to see if its still the same. That > sounds like a bug to me. > > >> At the moment I'm playing with revisor too. The resulting img is about >> the same size as with Pungi :-/ It's only 411MB of packages, and >> /images weights 325MB. >> > Why leave the boot.iso in tree before building disc1, that is what is > causing the bloat. It was ok when boot.iso was only 15meg, but now...
Rough "thinning" script: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkslim Turns the current DVD sized install iso into a CD sized one. Should see if my pungi patches could be ported to revisor, then this script would not need, for the spin to fit on a cdrom. Jerry _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
