Remastered knoppix size
Good work, IMO, with knoppix 5.1. Many previous bugs have disappeared.
It's ,much better than 5.0.
But ... it lacks kde-i18n-es. Spanish is the thirth language in number of
people talking it, with about 400 million people. I supose it's due to CD
size problems. This time the CD is more thightly full.
I'm remastering it with Spanish, removing turkish, japaneese, pl, nl, ...
but my iso grows too much.
To know where the problems where, I have remastered the original knoppix
without any addition. I've just apt-get updated, after that I have shrinked
the apt cache with a script I saw in this mailing list:
for i in /var/lib/apt/lists/*_{Release,Packages,Sources}; do >$i;
touch -t 198103190000.00 $i; done; apt-get check
with this I reduce the iso size in about 67 MB
I create the compressed file sistem (the KNOPPIX file) with -b option to
optimize the compression:
mkisofs -input-charset
ISO-8859-15 -no-split-symlink-components -no-split-symlink-fields -R -l -U -V "KNOPPIX.net
filesystem" -P "KNOPPIX
www.knoppix.net" -hide-rr-moved -cache-inodes -pad /mnt/hda10/knx/source/KNOPPIX |
create_compressed_fs -b - 65536 > /mnt/hda10/knx/master/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX
with this I reduce the iso size in about 20 MB
But even that way may ISO is 20 Mb bigger than Klaus'
Any tip? It would help if Klaus sends us the whole mkisofs command he uses and
how he shrinks the apt database.
Best regards.
Victor Alonso.
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