Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> writes: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:06:14PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >>On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 14:30 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> For the last few builds, the i386/amd64/powerpc sid netinst image has >>> become too big to fit on one CD any more. The following packages are >>> falling off onto a second disk now: >>> >>> i386:main:linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem:27213342 >>> i386:main:linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem:3036 >>> i386:main:linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem:516338 >>> i386:main:linux-headers-2.6-686-bigmem:2930 >> >>The linux-image ones were added to support installation into a Xen PV >>domain and were added to this image precisely because it was one of the >>few images which was considered to have room -- it would be a shame to >>have to drop them. > > Hmmm, OK. > >>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/20100615-5/multi-arch/list-cd/debian-testing-amd64-i386-powerpc-netinst.list.gz >>> >>> in case anybody wants to take a look and suggest things... >> >>I'm afraid I don't have any good ideas. Is this particular image >>supposed to contain a complete base system or just enough to fetch the >>remainder of the base system from the net? > > The netinsts are meant to have the base system, yes. I can't see > anything obvious myself that we can drop. Maybe time to give up on > powerpc on that image, like we've done on the m-a DVD. Shame, but > there's only so much stuff we can accommodate here. Anybody else have > an opinion here? Frans/Joey?
Just a crcy idea: Could the plain i386 kernel be droped instead? That would loose support for i486 and i586 cpus on the m-a CD. But is that needed there? MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkyldfr8....@frosties.localdomain