From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16229 invoked by uid 1002); 18 Aug 2003 23:05:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 15126 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2003 23:05:57 -0000 From: Stuart Herbert Reply-To: stuart@gentoo.org To: Kurt Lieber , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:03:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20030818194238.GR1161@mail.lieber.org> In-Reply-To: <20030818194238.GR1161@mail.lieber.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_WtVQ/22H0+d0Act"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308190003.50542.stuart@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat X-Archives-Salt: 2b439082-61de-4d0f-983c-b47a3402bc09 X-Archives-Hash: 8091b8dd3dbc0cceea034da8f83f9fcd --Boundary-02=_WtVQ/22H0+d0Act Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 18 August 2003 8:42 pm, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I've used the same installation CD for most of my gentoo installs over the > past few months, so I was shocked today when I realized that the smallest > install ISO that we currently offer (at least for x86) is 80MB. When I > started with Gentoo, it was ~15MB. The current gentoo-basic iso is around 68 Mb; the uncompressed livecd image= on=20 there comes out at 144 Mb. (Btw, why isn't there an ebuild for cloop=20 anywhere in Portage? No matter, I've put one together, which I'll commit=20 later in the week. Don't use cloop-1.0, as it's not compatible with cloop= =20 images made with older versions, because of the change to 64-bit in the fil= e=20 format, and because cloop-1.0-2 looks like it was released by accident) It looks like adding vim to the iso is one of the causes of the size increa= se. =20 So (it seems) is Perl 5. Having vim is much appreciated (although a bit of= =20 trimming would be nice perhaps), but I'm not yet sure why the CD needs Perl= =20 5. I'm sure it's been put on there for a reason tho. I think a nice target size should be an image that fits onto your average 6= 4Mb=20 Pendrive. Being able to carry a Gentoo install solution around on my keyri= ng=20 (along with my gpg keys :) sure is nice. So ideally a 55Mb image, to allow= =20 room to spare. It doesn't look too hard to make a smaller image if you want. The syslinux= =20 site seems (I haven't tried this *yet*) to have all the info required on ho= w=20 to make a new ISO image, and it's easy enough to look at the contents of th= e=20 existing ISO image, with a short amount of work. I can knock up a mini-gui= de=20 for that if there's demand. Best regards, Stu =2D-=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.o= rg Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.or= g/ Beta packages for download http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/package= s/ Come and meet me in March 2004 http://www.phparch.com/cruis= e/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C =2D- --Boundary-02=_WtVQ/22H0+d0Act Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/QVtWDC+AuvmvxXwRAsBLAKC8biXzcLn6zntVEahPXpb8+7ORqACcCrLi MHf+GqjWHO8bBPGan39UDSA= =Qtx9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_WtVQ/22H0+d0Act--