Re: Bug#72067: SIZELIMIT is not properly handled when bootable CDs are built

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:50:50PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> was heard to say:
> [ Ccing debian-cd so that they can help if needed, that's why i keep many
> lines of context ]
> >   This may be pilot error; I'll go sit in the corner with the dunce cap
> > on if that turns out to be the case.

  Hmm, I may have to dust that dunce cap off..

> >   (a) making all the CDs bootable.  This is not so good.  It basically wastes
> >      several hundred megabytes on redundant copies of disks-i386.  I don't see
> >      why I need more than one bootable CD.
> 
> Only CD 1 & 2 are bootable. And disks-i386 is only included on CD1. So
> only CD 1 should be bloated by 150Mb.

  *blink*

  I built a 4-cd bootable set with SIZELIMIT set to 600000000, and the first 3
CDs came out to nearly 800000000 bytes.
  Anyway, if this is the case, I still think the immense size required
should be mentioned somewhere if it isn't already.

> That's why we have SIZELIMIT1 different from SIZELIMIT in the
> documentation (README) :
> $ make list COMPLETE=1 SIZELIMIT1=555000000 SRCSIZELIMIT=665000000

  I saw that, but I couldn't figure out the point..it looked like different
sizelimits for binary and source cds..

> In the README :
>   All CD1 of officials images are bootable (CD for ARM are the exception)
>   and the space required for this stuff may not always be taken into
>   account in the size calculation. That's why you may need to adjust
>   manually SIZELIMIT1 following the size of the boot-floppies set that
>   you're using.

  I can't find this in my copy of the README.  Is it hidden somewhere? :)

> >    Off to build non-bootable CD images so they fit on real, physical CDs,
> 
> No, you can do whatever you want with debian-cd. You just need to
> learn its inconsistencies or limits. :)

   Thanks for your patience,
  Daniel

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