PowerPC Netinstall image larger than 180 MB

2008-04-26 Thread Martin Paquette 
Dear Debian web site maintainer,
   Just wanted to let you know
that I went to this page
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/netinst#smallcdand downloaded the
Small CD for the PowerPC platform
(debian-40r3-powerpc-netinst.iso) and the actual .iso image does _not_ fit
on a 80 mm CD-R. On the page we can read "The following are images files
which are up to 180 MB in size" but the actual size is more like 233 MB.

Thanks,
Martin Paquette

Re: PowerPC Netinstall image larger than 180 MB

2008-04-26 Thread Frans Pop 
Martin Paquette wrote:
> Just wanted to let you know that I went to this page
> http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/netinst#smallcdand downloaded the
> Small CD for the PowerPC platform
> (debian-40r3-powerpc-netinst.iso) and the actual .iso image does _not_ fit
> on a 80 mm CD-R. On the page we can read "The following are images files
> which are up to 180 MB in size" but the actual size is more like 233 MB.

Unfortunately PowerPc is the exception that confirms the rule. The reason 
the PowerPC images are so much larger is that they have to include more 
different kernel flavors (both for the installer itself and for the 
installed system) than any other architecture.

Unfortunately there's not much we can do about that.

Cheers,
FJP


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