Re: Bug#612074: debian-cd: provide iso image aligned on usb thumb drive size
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 03:57:01PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 14:43 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> For now, I've added code to debian-cd to allow for configuration to
>> specify use of a specified disk type (i.e. size), but then to
>> over-ride the size for *all* the images (as I did for the KDE CDs for
>> squeeze), and/or a single specific image number.
>
>Does this mean a random user (maybe not so random but...) can easily use
>debian-cd to cook his own unofficial disk saying “I have an usb thumb
>drive which is 3.141G and would like to put as much packages as I can on
>it”?
Well, ish. At the moment I've defined a set of sizes for 1/2/4/8 GB
USB drives which will make it easy. Custom sizes are possible too if
people want to do that, but will need a little more config.
>> Then I'm going to make DVD#1 limit to 4GB for amd64, i386 and the
>> amd64/i386 m-a DVD. Then it'll fit on a 4GB stick too, and I think
>> that's useful. The rest of the set will still fill up to the normal
>> 4.7GB DVD size, as there's no point to keeping to that limit on later
>> discs. Other arches and source DVDs will also not be affected -
>> there's also no point messing with them AFAICS. Please correct me if
>> you think I'm wrong here!
>
>Yeah, no use for the rest of the set. 4G is nice, will the removed 700M
>contain useful stuff which will miss to our users?
We'll find out. :-) I've grepped out (roughly!) the list of packages
that will have now moved from DVD#1 to DVD#2 for both i386 and amd64
(wheezy). See each file at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/tmp/
if you're interested.
>(Agreed that it might not make sense for other arches than amd64 and
>i386).
Exactly - if somebody tells me that another arch can boot directly
from a USB stick that contains an ISO/(hybrid) setup, then we can add
the same option later.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess
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