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Debian Installer integration and image sizes



Chris Lamb wrote:

> here are the ramifications on image size of the various Debian Installer
> integration options:

I've made some changes/bug fixes in Git which save more space.

>  * Netboot installer
>    ie. LH_DEBIAN_INSTALLER="businesscard|netboot|netinst" or when
>    LH_BINARY_IMAGES="net"
>                                add 19 MiB

               This is now:      add 15 MiB

>                                     ||
>                                     \/
>  * "Live" installer
>    ie. LH_DEBIAN_INSTALLER="live" and  LH_BINARY_IMAGES != "net"
> 
>                                add 30 MiB
>                                     ||
>                                     \/

               This is now:      add 20 MiB

   
>  * "Normal" installer
>    ie. LH_DEBIAN_INSTALLER="enabled|cdrom" and LH_BINARY_IMAGES != "net"
> 
>                                add 85 MiB


This makes live installation about ~35MiB extra.

If you have some knowledge about the target hardware (for example, knowing it
doesn't have SCSI) or you are okay with limiting installation options (eg. no
ReiserFS, XFS, etc.) or features (eg. no openssh-{client,server} support),
you can remove some udebs by placing their names (with wildcards) in:

   config/binary_debian-installer/udeb_exclude

Using this, you could probably add a live installer with <= 30Mb of space.


Regards,

-- 
Chris Lamb, UK                                       chris at chris-lamb.co.uk
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