On 07/13/2014 03:19 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
On 13/07/14 02:24, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
[...] I've also started to produce a minimal.iso (and so packages manifest) It's not about the packages size, but the size of the install media *without* any package at all (and metadata) :
5.9M EFI/ 438M images/ (we can remove boot.iso , obviously -> 76M) 70M isolinux/ 279M LiveOS/
and we still have to add the packages .. so not sure it will fit on a single CD. and if the goal is to produce a DVD iso image, I don't think people will be interested in "wasting" a DVD for a ~1G iso instead of the normal DVD, that covers both minimal and other "variants" ...
One must think also in terms of USB sticks nowadays. A <1GB image can be dd-ed to any stick. I have half a dozen or so 2GB sized leftovers received at a conference , initially carrying a popular antivirus. If I wouldn't do installs from my phone, those would be my next choice.