Hi, Joseph wrote: > > Question: does > > "debian-11.0.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso" < 700 MB > > exist?
Andrew M.A. Cater and Steve McIntyre wrote: > No [because too fat for a 650 MB CD] It's not the first time that this came up. My best idea for making a smaller ISO with XFCE is in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/09/msg00438.html where i propose to get a DVD-1 ISO and to strip it down by a xorriso run which derives a new ISO from it: xorriso -indev debian-11.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso \ -outdev my_new_debian_11.iso \ -rm ...paths.in.the.ISO... -- \ ... more -rm commands ... \ -boot_image any replay It is a matter of try and error to see which list of paths in the ISO can be given without spoiling the capabilities which you need. I assume that you can delete lots of packages under /pool/main . After mounting debian-11.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso as /mnt/iso find /mnt/iso/pool/main -exec ls -ld '{}' ';' | sort -n -r -k 5 | less yields weighty candidates like -r--r--r-- 1 root root 129753796 Jan 6 2021 /mnt/iso/pool/main/f/fonts-noto-cjk/fonts-noto-cjk-extra_20201206-cjk+repack1-1_all.deb -r--r--r-- 1 root root 99180540 Jan 5 2021 /mnt/iso/pool/main/g/gnucash-docs/gnucash-docs_4.4-1_all.deb -r--r--r-- 1 root root 72427756 Dec 30 2020 /mnt/iso/pool/main/f/fonts-noto/fonts-noto-extra_20201225-1_all.deb The 300 biggest .deb files sum up to ~ 2.5 GB . That would leave about 1.3 GB of remaining ISO size. One would have to remove at least 750 .deb files to reach 800 MB, and more than 600 for a 900 MB CD medium. (Probably more, because some of the large .deb files will be needed for the desired functionality.) Given the substantial length of the paths, i'd write the xorriso -rm command lines into a separate file "my_debian_11_rm_list" like -rm /pool/main/f/fonts-noto-cjk/fonts-noto-cjk-extra_20201206-cjk+repack1-1_all.deb -- -rm /pool/main/g/gnucash-docs/gnucash-docs_4.4-1_all.deb -- -rm /pool/main/f/fonts-noto/fonts-noto-extra_20201225-1_all.deb -- In above xorriso example i'd then replace -rm ...paths.in.the.ISO... -- \ ... more -rm commands ... \ by -options_from_file my_debian_11_rm_list \ (A good kill list in that file might be interesting for others who want to address small USB sticks.) Have a nice day :) Thomas
