Re: Credit Card CD
Yeah that was linuxcare but that is not a true(tm) debian cd. This one has
.debs on it and you can use that for specialised installs.
On Sat, 20 May 2000, John Galt wrote:
>
> Didn't someone make a base/bootfloppy CD image at ~30M once?
>
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Philip Charles wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 18 May 2000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone done modifications yet to the debian-cd package in order to do
> > > a Credit Card Size CD that can install debian?
> > >
> > > Credit Card CDs can contain <50MB but the debian-cds have a minimum size
> > > of ~100MB for the "standard" system.
> > >
> > > Maybe the following would accomplish a reduction:
> > >
> > > 1. Cut down on files for diskimages and documentation. Only provide one
> > > set of images needed to boot from CD plus loadlin to load it from dos.
> > > Remove tools directory.
> > >
> > > 2. Do not include .debs that are already included in the base system on
> > > disk 1
> > >
> > > 3. Do not include all standard system debs by default on CD1 but allow
> > > Tasks_XXX to be specified.
> > >
> > If you use debian-cd to produce the disc-tree for the first CD then it is
> > a simple matter to remove what is not needed before the iso image is
> > created. images-1.20 is ~22 MB and could be removed, and then images-1.44
> > which is ~35 MB could be pruned. Several other directories could be
> > treated in the same way.
> >
> > Phil.
> >
> >
> > -
> > Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818
> > Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz
> >
> >
> >
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> Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a
> damn.
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