Re: Root disk problems for i18n floppies
Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:40:24AM +0200 wrote:
> 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
>
> So what shall we do? Only support it for the 2.88 ones?
That is what we use for CD install, right? I think having the language chooser
only for CD installs (which most people use anyway) is ok.
> Othewise we need to find a way to cut some 200 KB (100 + 40 for
> chinese messages + who knows how much for locale definition).
>
It would be difficult to free 200 KB. It isn't clear to me that we could
without a lot of work and/or removing entire features from b-f which I don't
think we should do.
David
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