Steve McIntyre wrote: > 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! > > For a 1GB or 2GB (or even 8GB/16GB) image, we *can* add more builds > targetted to fit those sizes, but I would rather make those be totally > separate builds; they're not close enough to any of the current > standard sizes that we generate IMHO. > > Thoughts? A good general principle would be to not add custom sizes that are smaller than the size of the typically well-tested CD media. A 500mb iso is likely to be nearly useless because it will never fit Gnome, for example, and so will end up having to download nearly as much from the network as would a netinst iso. I'm curious what tasks, if any, are made unavailable by reducing the DVD to 4gb. Probably the key packages of all tasks fit in 4gb anyway, but do *all* packages of all tasks? -- see shy jo
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