On Don, Okt 18, 2001 at 09:25:33 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > The first big stumbling block that the system has *exploded* in size. > We're about 233K too big (and we used to be several hundred K under the > max size..) I am contacting the worst offenders and trying to get it > back to something that will fit on a floppy. I am also going to be > working on some programs tonight to automatically detect any positivle > size changes in the future, and raise red flags. Anyone who wants to > work on d-i in the next week, first concentrate on size. I want to get > it back to fitting on one floppy by next Wednesday. Here's the current > breakdown on the size changes: > > - /lib/modules is about 520k bigger !!! > - 22k of tokenring stuff (why?) > - 511k of net/ stuff. This probably needs to be > severely trimmed down, to just the following > common cards: > 3c501.o, 3c503.o, 3c505.o, 3c507.o, > 3c515.o, 3c59x.o, 82596.o, 8390.o, > eepro100.o, ne.o, ne2k-pci.o, > via-rhine.o, tulip.o > that will result in it being only 5k bigger than > it used to be. > - I've mailed Herbert about this.
Hi! The last days I played around with d-i. I realized that net-i1440-image doesn't fit on one single floppy. Another aproach to reduce the size is to build a kernel-image designed for the debian-installer with a reduced feature-set. I managed to build one that is about 70k smaller. OTOH then you cannot chroot into the installed system, you need to reboot once. IMHO this doesn't matter. BTW: libdetect0 has no udeb. ethdetect is uninstallable yours joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
