On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:10:30PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On May 22, Steve Haslam wrote: > > How do you manage to persuade debian-cd to produce a 185M ISO? I tried using > > your .packages file as a "TASK" file for "make list" and ended up with an > > ISO of over 300M... > > My guess is that somehow other tasks are being pulled in, or it is > trying to pull in a bunch of kernel-image packages (rather than using > debootstrap to make the base system list). Erk. It certainly is adding a bunch of kernel-image etc. packages. And a few other things... gtk, for example. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. > I'm not sure how to do it cleanly with an unhacked debian-cd these > days; however, all the files you need should be at: > > http://www.lordsutch.com/cds/debian-cd/hacks.html > > And yes, I need to make it into a tar file instead of a replicated > directory layout... ;-) OK, I'll poke around with what I've got at the moment and see if I can find out why these packages are being brought in... maybe I'll just drop a load of them into an exclude list.... SRH -- Steve Haslam http://www.arise.demon.co.uk/ araqnid@innocent.com Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer araqnid@debian.org but I won't admit to needing you I'll never say that's true, not to you [sister machine gun]
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