On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 06:59:47PM +0000, Rob Bradford wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:53:12PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > | Users who are installing Debian onto smaller systems and who only > > | require the only a basic system will be pleasently suprised to find that > > | the base system is now smaller than in the previous release of Debian > > | GNU/Linux. > > > > Did someone actually check this? I just said it *might* be so. > > Why would i ever doubt you Joey? :) > > I dont have the bandwidth capabilities to test this here, can someone please > check this and inform me. its absolutly not true at all, woody's base is larger then potato's using debootstrap to create a clean woody base, then removing the .debs from var/cache/apt as well as the fake lists from var/lib/apt and tgzing the result i have: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22005075 Nov 1 14:57 woodybase.tgz potato's base2_2.tgz: -rw-r--r-- 1 debian debian 16538806 Apr 15 2001 base2_2.tgz additionally, due to the way debootstrap works, if your using a single root partition layout your root partition must be no less then 100MB for a sucessful install, this is because you must have room for both the unpackaged base system AND all the .deb files it comprises. the .debs cannot be removed until after the base system has been completly extracted and isntalled. this affects CDROM installs as well since debootstrap copies all the base .debs into var/cache/apt/archives. the extracted base plus the .deb files is 92MB, but i think you likly need a few more since dpkg is used to reinstall most of the base packages at the end to sanitize the dpkg databases, 100MB has shown to be sufficient in most tests. (you can of course have a smaller / partition if you split off /usr and /var). so its safe to say you need double the ammount of space you needed for potato base installs. some stats (generated with du -sh): 65M woody 56M potato 50M woody/usr 44M potato/usr 3.6M woody/var 2.2M potato/var eb@ash ~/tmp$ chmod 0 woody/usr woody/var potato/usr potato/var 12M woody 9.9M potato with the base .debs not removed: 91M woody 30M woody/var 22M woody/var/cache/apt 4.7M woody/var/lib/apt/lists this is all on the powerpc arch, but there are no new packages added to powerpc's base that were not added to all architectures, the space requirements will be slightly less for i386, but still porportional. (since powerpc binaries are slightly larger then i386 binaries). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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