On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > I am wondering, if anybody tried to build a CDimage of Slink. Will main > > fit on one CDROM? For hamm this problem was addressed pretty late (main, > > contrib, non-free) and the solution was acceptable at best. > > I have. Slink's main section is about 750 MB right now. boot disks > (disks-i386) are about 20 MB more. Documents, 2 MB. tools, 1 MB. 5 MB more > for indices (which I like to include on my cd's in case I screw up). 5 MB > overhead for the cd-specific things (the table, the translation table, the > other translation table, the padding, ...). You end up with 785 MB to put on > a single CD. > I solve getting only slink/..../binary- (all/i386)/admin/
> I was toying with this the other day; I ended up using a script to get only > packages with priority != extra, but that still won't fit on a single CD. I > nuked a few packages by hand some versions of emacs) and I got it under 630, > which is about ok for me because I like to add the lastest 2.1 kernel plus a > few patches. > > It seems now it's a good time to rethink what's "extra". > > > Marcelo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Marcelo E. Laurenti Escuela de Ingenieria Electronica Fac. de Cs. Exactas e Ingenieria Universidad Nacional de Rosario
