-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 May 2006 08:55:02 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:23:52PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > - We'll continue to produce separate cd, mini.iso and hd-media > > images; creating netboot images seems less obvious because of the > > size of the initrd. > > A netboot mini.iso would be useful, but for powerpc there's probably > not a lot of point in other netboot images; most of the machines that > might be able to use this use yaboot, and we're already running up > against its TFTP limit with non-GUI images. > > > Including the g-i images on the netinst will mean that it will grow > > bigger than its current "maximum" size of 110 MB. The 110 MB limit > > is set mostly to allow installations from a 128 MB USB-stick > > (hd-media image + netinst iso together must be smaller than the > > capacity of the USB stick). As we feel it is important to have the > > graphical installer available on all CD types, we propose to relax > > the current size limit. This will mean that the default image for > > USB installations will become 256 MB instead of 128 MB. > > We'd prefer not let the netinst grow unnecessarily, but relaxing > > the size limit means that we could also for example include both > > initramfs-tools and yaird (current netinst images only have one, > > not both). Just an observation: We've got a businesscard iso for small cd-r(w) media, so unless that's being dropped, why not let that do for small usb media as well? Cheers, Daniel - -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEdBwJhvWBpdQuHxwRAlWJAJ9yqLALJssJPZ7FuOtHzwHW8eH2BACgkcGK fqKnaTWYrspu5PwcQeOi5+w= =Q1Hw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
