Re: FC2 test 1

[Jeff Vian <jvian10 charter net>]

Dave Jones wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 18:39, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
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> > > > I just had a look at the FC2 test 1 download for iso's and it is 4 cd's,
> > > > plus a nother 4 for the SRPM's. Wow, 
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> > > Yea, it's not what anyone really wants. Suggestions on what to remove are
> > > most welcome. :)
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> > all the kernel rpms are together around 100MB... ;)
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> kernel-source takes up the bulk of this, weighing in at 40MB.
> That's not going to get any smaller. The actual kernel images
> are around 16MB each, and there's only 4 of them.
> (i586/i586-smp/i686/i686-smp)
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> We're actually shipping *less* kernel RPMs than FC1.
> - No Athlon build
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YIKES,  and what about all the users who have Athalons.  Are you 
planning to force them to compile the kernel right off the bat?


> - No 386 build
> - No bigmem build
> - No debug build (though this will change for the final FC2)
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> I'm not sure we can actually trim it any further without losing
> functionality that some folks may want, or punishing low-end users.
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> We could lose the UP 586 build, and only ship the 586-smp kernel,
> which should run fine, but at a slight performance loss.
> Frankly, to save 16MB I don't think its worth it.
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> 	Dave
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