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Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest



Alexandre Oliva wrote:

On Feb 22, 2005, Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com> wrote:



On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Tim Daly wrote:


An alternative approach is to adopt the Knoppix compressed file system.
Knoppix manages to get about 2.3Gig on a single CD.





The .rpm packages are already compressed, so a compressed file system won't help here. Thanks for thinking outside the box, though!



Talking of compressing stuff... Couldn't we perhaps compress the hdlist and hdlist2 files in Fedora/base? Could we perhaps merge the contents of hdstg2.img and netstg2.img that, given their similar size, might be assumed to contain mostly the same contents? And how about stage2.img, if that's a superset? This certainly wouldn't get us the 300MB we need, but it could get us 5-15% of that.



You could also save similar amounts by only shipping either the postscript or pdf version of docs and not both. (more if you ship 1 of html,ps,pdf)

There really are some easy to get size savings around that don't entail dropping packages.
-josh



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