Fedora 9 x86_64 LiveCD fit on CD???

Robi robi.petranovic at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 16:30:20 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Robi (robi.petranovic at gmail.com) said:
>  > Fedora 8 i686 live CD is ~690MB large, so the whole CD is used.
>  > Fedora 8 x86_64 live CD is ~750MB large, so it isn't LiveCD, but LiveDVD.....
>  >
>  > I wonder why is that so?
>
>  x86_64 binaries are bigger (among other things).
>
>  Bill
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So, you are filling the LiveCD with i686 packeages until the maximum
~700MB, and then do the exact copy with x86_64 packages???
Why don't you do that reverse??? Then, the i686 LiveCD will be ~650MB
and x86_64 will be ~700MB and both will fit CD...




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