On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:27:45AM +0100, Nahir MOHAMED wrote:
Hi all,
I'm actually working on a custom version of Debian for a project. I
start from the debian-509-i386-CD-1.iso to build my custom version
and I added some personal packages using this howto :
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD#Create_new__Release_and_Packages_files
In this howto they use the mkisofs command to generate the image file
and it works like a charm but my .iso file size is bigger than a
normal CD size.
Yes, that is a common problem if you're adding things. We try to make
the CDs as full as possible when creating them.
So I would like to know if I can burn it directly on a DVD or should
I use another command/tool to build a new .iso file.
It should work just the same on a DVD if you need to,
yes. Alternatively, you could remove some of the other packages in the
tree to make things fit on a CD but that's not a trivial task to get
right. Your best bet there if you need to is to work backwards through
the list of packages listed in the Packages file, removing:
* the Packages entry (and then recompress for Packages.gz)
* the .deb
* the entry in md5sums.txt