Matt Taggart: > I have been told (by Steve Langasek) that the netinst image sizes are > "whatever it takes to do net install, to be used on a regular CD but kept as > small as possible for download purposes". The netinst images are all pretty > close to the 185mb mini-CD size, > > arch size free space on a 185mb disk > ========================================= > arm: 136mb 49mb > sparc: 138mb 47mb > amd64: 145mb 40mb > i386: 159mb 26mb > alpha: 162mb 23mb > hppa: 162mb 23mb > mips: 168mb 17mb > mipsel: 170mb 15mb > ia64: 212mb -27mb > ppc: 234mb -49mb The mini CD size is the primary target of the netinst. A secondary target is putting the netinst on a hd-media usb stick. We were not able to keep it fitting on a 128 mb stick for etch, so the current target there is 256 mb, of which ~245 mb is available for the netinst. > Only ia64 and powerpc are over that size which is good, that means that most > of the current netinst images are usable on miniCDs, if not optimal. But > there's also some opportunity to squeeze a little more on there for most of > the archs. Getting the ia64 and powerpc below 185mb would be good, making use > of the extra space on the other archs would be a bonus. IMHO the best use of the space for i386 would be including a full set of the kernels d-i can install on there, instead of only the 486 and 686 kernels. That would fix one of the current hidden problems of using the netinst, that you may not get the ideal optimised kernel. -- see shy jo
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