On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 12:22:08 +0000, nia wrote:
> There are quite a few large things in base.tgz ("large things" defined
> as "dynamic binaries taking up a few megabytes") that are uncompressed
> on the install ISO.
How bit-rotten are syspkgs? Can we use that to prune the unpacked
copy of base.tgz in ramdisk that is used to run the instaler.
I also thought that we do support compressed ramdisk in _some_
scenarios with the help of the bootloader and the md(4) option
MEMORY_DISK_DYNAMIC (detached miniroot image).
-uwe
