Re: Second draft of Woody release notes
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.
>
As far as disk space needed to install, we revised that from 75MB to 100MB.
Some of that is taken up by debs that are later deleted. I think since the
new system downloads all the debs first, rather than unpacking packages directly
from a tarball, it requires more working space, not less. But that's just for
a network install. From a CD, I don't think that logic applies.
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