I'm trying to install Trisquel Mini 8.0 onto a system from 1999, whose optical drive is only a CD drive and not a DVD drive, and has no way of booting from USB (not that that matters since it only supports USB 1.1).

I noticed that the latest build of Trisquel Mini is 950 MB, and therefore can't fit on a 700 MB recordable CD and so must be burned onto a DVD instead. Unfortunately, this means that I cannot install Trisquel Mini onto that system. (The system otherwise meets the system requirements for Trisquel Mini.)

I thought of using the Net Install image, as that can fit onto a CD with ample room to spare, but the machine doesn't (yet) have a means of connecting to the Internet. I also thought of installing the previous Trisquel Mini 7.0, whose image is small enough to fit onto a CD, and then upgrading, but I can't upgrade the system without Internet access and I'd prefer a fresh install of 8.0 so I don't have to do as much configuration.

Is there an image of Trisquel Mini 8.0 that has some non-essential packages removed, so that the image is under 700 MB? If not, can someone please make one? (As an example, I don't need Spanish language support, so that can be removed.)

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