Here's a brief analysis of the extra packages installed on top of the squashfs contents, organised in groups of which ones are installed together by d-i followed by the reported additional installed-size for each group:
linux-headers-3.5.0-14 linux-headers-3.5.0-14-generic linux-headers-generic linux-headers-virtual linux-image-3.5.0-14-generic linux-image-virtual linux-virtual (101MB) libpci3 pciutils (270KB) libusb-1.0-0 usbutils (259KB) biosdevname (22KB) apt-xapian-index aptitude aptitude-common dmidecode laptop-detect libboost-iostreams1.49.0 libclass-accessor-perl libclass-isa-perl libcwidget3 libept1.4.12 libgdbm3 libio-string-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libsub-name-perl libswitch-perl libtimedate-perl libxapian22 perl perl-modules python-apt python-apt-common python-chardet python-debian python-six python-xapian tasksel tasksel-data xz-utils (50MB - possibly closer to 65MB following change in livecd-rootfs 2.87, since now this will pull in iso-codes too) installation-report (77KB) language-pack-en language-pack-en-base (4MB) gettext-base grub-common libasprintf0c2 libfreetype6 libfuse2 os-prober (7MB) grub-gfxpayload-lists grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common (2.6MB) With the exception of kernel headers which you've already said you want to keep, most of this is small enough that it isn't worth talking about. However, tasksel and its dependencies take up a noticeable amount of space considering that we configure tasksel not to do anything during installation in the minimalvm case. Do you want to keep this? I'm reluctant to take the decision to remove this myself, because you may well have documentation that says "install minimalvm and then run tasksel to turn the system into whatever you want", given that a minimal virtual machine isn't very useful on its own. Anyone from the server team want to weigh in on this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1028453 Title: Quantal Ubuntu Server minimal install oversized To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1028453/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
