Re: Summary of the Debian CD BoF at DC15
Steve McIntyre writes:
> Q. Can we tweak debian-cd to install a full 64-bit CD/system with
> *some* 32-bit support included, but not full?
>
> A. People have asked about this kind of thing multiple times in the
> past, but no code yet. debian-cd m-a support is currently designed
> to include exactly the same level of packages for all the
> architectures on a m-a CD. This could be hacked fairly easily to
> fix that - just include the base system and some libraries for
> secondary architectures. No time to look at this yet, but a
> wishlist bug would help! :-)
I know I asked for this at one point, but I can't seem to find where.
In addition, or as an alternative to, custom package lists to optimize the
CD, I also had the idea that maybe there could just be a tool that glued
together existing images (as long as the total of the image sizes was less
than the container size, not a problem with USB thumbdrives). Inefficient
use of space, but fast.
Back when I asked I wanted this for a CD. I still want it, but now
optimized for a 2gb USB thumb drive, and booting:
* amd64 install with lots of packages
* i386 install with netinst packages
(and maybe live images, debirf rescue images, memtest86+, etc)
When searching I did find these threads which are all still relevant
Subject: netinst, businesscard, and media sizes
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:28:50 -0700
https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2007/04/msg00072.html
follow up to above
Subject: Re: Bits from the Debian CD team
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:02:04 -0700
https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2008/10/msg00024.html
Subject: too many CD ISOs
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:59:35 -0700
https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2007/04/msg00088.html
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Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org
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