Re: CD images of Slink
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>
> > I am wondering, if anybody tried to build a CDimage of Slink. Will main
> > fit on one CDROM? For hamm this problem was addressed pretty late (main,
> > contrib, non-free) and the solution was acceptable at best.
>
> I have. Slink's main section is about 750 MB right now. boot disks
> (disks-i386) are about 20 MB more. Documents, 2 MB. tools, 1 MB. 5 MB more
> for indices (which I like to include on my cd's in case I screw up). 5 MB
> overhead for the cd-specific things (the table, the translation table, the
> other translation table, the padding, ...). You end up with 785 MB to put on
> a single CD.
>
I solve getting only slink/..../binary- (all/i386)/admin/
> I was toying with this the other day; I ended up using a script to get only
> packages with priority != extra, but that still won't fit on a single CD. I
> nuked a few packages by hand some versions of emacs) and I got it under 630,
> which is about ok for me because I like to add the lastest 2.1 kernel plus a
> few patches.
>
> It seems now it's a good time to rethink what's "extra".
>
>
> Marcelo
>
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Marcelo E. Laurenti
Escuela de Ingenieria Electronica
Fac. de Cs. Exactas e Ingenieria
Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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