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.