On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 09:52:13 PM Phillip Susi wrote: > On 06/08/2011 06:50 PM, Allison Randal wrote: > > Following on the tail of this, a few of us have been talking more about > > the idea of shrinking the 4.3GB DVD image down to a 1.5GB flash card/USB > > stick/DVD image. It's looking interesting enough to be worth talking > > about it more broadly. > > Do you mean creating a new image in between the dvd and cd, or replacing > the dvd image? I hope the former. I find the DVD image handy because > you can still boot it as a livecd, and install using the GUI installer, > but also fall back to the alternate for server or other advanced > installs, or if the gui installer has problems, and even use it to > upgrade an existing system ( or several ) without having to download all > of the packages. > > > - What should we cut from the current DVD image (currently a superset of > > desktop, alternate, and server)? Or, perhaps more simply, what would be > > worth adding beyond the current 700MB CD image? > > One thing that would be nice to fix with the existing DVD image is the > waste of space it has from duplicating the language packs both as > packages in the pool, and being installed in the sqashfs live image, > which is MUCH larger than the one on the livecd. It seems like the > language packs should only be included in the pool, not the squashfs > image, and installed on demand. This also adds to the installation time > significantly ( like 400% increase - it is ridiculous ) since it has to > remove all of the language packs from the target system after copying > the squashfs.
+1 from me for this. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
