Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > The businesscard .iso is now about ~60MB, which probably won't even fit on > most "businesscard"-sized CDs. Could somebody please answer: I can only hazard guesses, surely debian-cd would have better answers. > - Why is the entire Debian keyring (6MB) on the CD? Probably to support checking signatures of Release files. > - Why are the net_drivers, cd_drivers and other floppies (at least 7-8MB) in > /install? They do not seem to be used in the installation. Probably so if you have a CD drive that cannot boot, you can copy these to floppies and use them to let d-i get at your CDROM. > - Why are there two different kernel udebs (2.4.20 and 2.4.22)? (Several more > megabytes.) Really, what do you need the kernel-iamge udebs for at all? We need at least one to install onto the base system. > - What do we need the entire Contents-i386.gz (6MB) from sarge for? From sarge? > The woody netinst images are ~10MB. I think we should be easily able to trim > 30MB off the current business card ISOs, and we definitely should do so :-) Maybe you're looking for something more like the cd_image target in debian-installer/build/? IIRC it's < 10 mb. -- see shy jo
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