From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: Iso image size Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 08:37:44 +0000 Message-ID: <20171208083744.tstydd574siv5ik4@abyayala> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cwin4wzn7ybvqusn" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42225) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEAe-0008RS-Du for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 03:38:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEAb-0002YN-5t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 03:38:12 -0500 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:37964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEAa-0002XK-Ua for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 03:38:09 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?utf-8?B?R8OhYm9y?= Boskovits Cc: Guix-devel --cwin4wzn7ybvqusn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable G=C3=A1bor Boskovits transcribed 1.3K bytes: > I don't know what we are currently doing to get the installer iso image > sized down, but I caught some discussion yesterday on irc, that the image > is actually very well compressible, and checking the sizes it really is. >=20 > Might that be possible to do something like compressing the root filesyst= em > image on the iso image, and decompress it from initrd before mounting? >=20 > Or do we already do that? >=20 > It might worth consideration, if that makes the image fit onto a CD. Are there any reasons why we should really consider CDs a target in 2017-almost-2018? I threw away around 500 CDs + 100 floppy disks with backup data of the last 20 years quiet recently (and only kept originals). All I'm getting here (West Germany) are BluRays and similar opticals. And I predict that even this will go away in the near future. So why focus on the artifical size of optical disks, especially a format that has been considered old by most if not all other distros above the size of tiny distros? If this may sound like harsh criticism: I'm only curious. --=20 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://c.n0.is/ng0_pubkeys/tree/keys WWW: https://n0.is --cwin4wzn7ybvqusn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEqIyK3RKYKNfqwC5S4i+bv+40hYgFAloqT1gACgkQ4i+bv+40 hYjKnA/+LsD19K+Zkd4qCev5E186oIahqltAJFB1F3W6ywHozFnglh9jxVp3yzjl vQKHK2t2NXQXmqrjhaVeCroY2g6RkRB7sLUmb+VVUhD9CoeZL+W4p0RY0lT4MJT7 Wq6mA6IA4IIScdPPjNte1v5IXg7tBs/ELhx3oplrROPILjvVDJdxqPyDqsAPJmil Pb0FVtzesPzfbbzk8T2d/OfeSxTobKh/9sx52TJzWbOXphkCL6LQ81lwnPYBlN8I iG0srrRNnxguOgKBCVVkP3a9a64n8c937hEyEETBafe8ZUHVO6OJBOa9TCQEo8pg hAQsfxLFJ8nX3bKQG1cNuAwmFuvz+jed43eLNl4aFUpf/S5aL17q+EfzOa5p3Byt LPKjFqCJiMZwKFHdWuFjZm7E3hhCIkU21gOMX9Fi21AQX0hwz+HnnQsGjJehB53L uDVfFkvhHG4TaVGbcDNOkrEhtl+i7uwJBdIEuk+IYg63Kzy1tFBcfumBgmLYoNrh gk3r/7zeDdgCx4f6MpNpC3JWJAp+kCF99BZXwPb4aY05fm6bn7TFRyMQae2K8d37 S5BeN5EhGQcEsN76CIr0P6/qyhbcWLPlqBXBx8ydFUaL8a10Y/GNVMCErI5RkCeb uBAYLRUF8vqJ2U8MULt8ao0ijhUln3rdJS7Biee1WUwY98C7G4M= =pKC8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cwin4wzn7ybvqusn--