Root disk problems for i18n floppies
What I feared came true. We exceeded the size of a 1.44MB floppy.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root porridge 1169074 cze 9 01:53 root.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root porridge 1572787 cze 9 02:05 rootcompact.bin
Here is the sorted list of gzip -9 compressed contents of the
root disk. (And it doesn't include chineese messages, since I
had problems with building them). The numbers are 1KB blocks.
269 tt/lib/libc-2.2.3.so.gz
88 tt/linuxrc.gz
67 tt/sbin/dbootstrap.gz
55 tt/lib/libm-2.2.3.so.gz
48 tt/usr/lib/debootstrap/devices.tar.gz
45 tt/bin/sh.gz
44 tt/sbin/fsck.ext2.gz
43 tt/sbin/rmmod.gz
42 tt/lib/ld-2.2.3.so.gz
41 tt/sbin/dhclient-2.2.x.gz
37 tt/lib/libslang.so.1.4.4.gz
35 tt/lib/libext2fs.so.2.4.gz
33 tt/sbin/fdisk.gz
28 tt/lib/libnewt.so.0.50.17.gz
27 tt/lib/libresolv.so.2.gz
26 tt/sbin/depmod.gz
25 tt/sbin/ifconfig.gz
24 tt/etc/messages.ru.gz
23 tt/etc/messages.de.gz
22 tt/etc/messages.fr.gz
22 tt/etc/messages.hu.gz
22 tt/etc/messages.ja.gz
22 tt/sbin/cfdisk.gz
22 tt/etc/messages.pl.gz
21 tt/etc/messages.fi.gz
21 tt/etc/messages.hr.gz
21 tt/etc/messages.it.gz
21 tt/etc/messages.sk.gz
21 tt/etc/messages.pt.gz
21 tt/etc/messages.tr.gz
21 tt/sbin/isapnp.gz
21 tt/etc/messages.cs.gz
21 tt/etc/messages.es.gz
20 tt/bin/edit.gz
20 tt/etc/messages.da.gz
20 tt/etc/messages.eo.gz
20 tt/etc/messages.gl.gz
20 tt/etc/messages.sv.gz
19 tt/sbin/route.gz
19 tt/etc/messages.en.gz
18 tt/usr/sbin/pnpdump.gz
18 tt/unifont-reduced.bgf.gz
16 tt/usr/bin/bterm.gz
12 tt/sbin/mkfs.ext2.gz
12 tt/sbin/mke2fs.gz
11 tt/lib/libpopt.so.0.0.0.gz
9 tt/sbin/MAKEDEV.gz
8 tt/etc/keymaps.tgz
7 tt/sbin/badblocks.gz
6 tt/lib/libe2p.so.2.3.gz
6 tt/lib/libnss_dns.so.2.gz
5 tt/lib/libuuid.so.1.gz
5 tt/lib/libdl-2.2.3.so.gz
4 tt/usr/sbin/rdev.gz
3 tt/lib/libcom_err.so.2.0.gz
3 tt/usr/lib/debootstrap/functions.gz
3 tt/usr/lib/debootstrap/pkgdetails.gz
2 tt/etc/dhclient-script.gz
2 tt/sbin/update-modules.gz
2 tt/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody.gz
2 tt/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/potato.gz
2 tt/etc/modules.conf.gz
2 tt/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/slink.gz
1 tt/etc/fstab.gz
1 tt/etc/inittab.gz
1 tt/etc/inittab.install.gz
1 tt/etc/nsswitch.conf.gz
1 tt/etc/ld.so.conf.gz
1 tt/etc/init.d/rcS.gz
1 tt/etc/init.d/check_fb.sh.gz
1 tt/etc/protocols.gz
1 tt/etc/passwd.gz
1 tt/etc/group.gz
1 tt/sbin/udbootstrap.gz
1 tt/usr/bin/man.gz
1 tt/etc/profile.gz
1 tt/usr/lib/terminfo/a/ansi.gz
1 tt/usr/lib/terminfo/l/linux.gz
1 tt/usr/lib/debootstrap/arch.gz
1 tt/usr/sbin/debootstrap.gz
1 tt/usr/share/terminfo/b/bterm.gz
1 tt/var/state/pcmcia/scheme.gz
1 tt/etc/pump.conf.gz
1 tt/release_notes.cs.gz
1 tt/release_notes.de.gz
1 tt/release_notes.da.gz
1 tt/release_notes.eo.gz
1 tt/release_notes.es.gz
1 tt/release_notes.fi.gz
1 tt/release_notes.gl.gz
1 tt/release_notes.hr.gz
1 tt/release_notes.hu.gz
1 tt/release_notes.it.gz
1 tt/release_notes.ja.gz
1 tt/release_notes.pl.gz
1 tt/release_notes.ru.gz
1 tt/release_notes.sk.gz
1 tt/release_notes.sv.gz
1 tt/release_notes.tr.gz
1 tt/boot_message.gz
1 tt/type.txt.gz
1 tt/etc/ld.so.cache.gz
1 tt/release_notes.en.gz
1 tt/release_notes.fr.gz
1 tt/release_notes.pt.gz
So what shall we do? Only support it for the 2.88 ones?
Othewise we need to find a way to cut some 200 KB (100 + 40 for
chinese messages + who knows how much for locale definition).
Marcin
PS: all this is i386
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Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>
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