>Concretely: > > 199,6 MiB (209.297.408 bytes) > >Isn't it?
actually, here it shows 198.1MB (207,740,928 B) However my repack script is currently set to remove *.pyo and *.pyc (to save space). Also, i never seem to get exactly the same result from mksquashfs, even with exactly the same input files. D On 14 May 2016 at 13:25, David Hare <davidah...@gmail.com> wrote: > The standard Debian initrd has grown enormously since the days of squeeze.. > > The devuan-minimal iso's initrd is 27.1 MB gzip-compressed, 18.6 > xz-compressed and.. 186.1MB unpacked! > > Far as I know it's freed after switch_root but I assume the point here > is what to do for very low-ram systems.. > > > D > > On 14 May 2016 at 12:39, . fsmithred <fsmith...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was able to boot the minimal i386 in virtualbox with 175mb ram, but not >> with 170 or less. >> >> I'm a little surprised that it wants all that. Back in the days of Squeeze, >> I was able to boot an older version of Refracta (with e17, put together by >> meandean) and whatever version of Antix was current then with only 64mb ram >> on hardware. Has the initrd grown that much since then? >> >> >> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 7:32 AM, David Hare <davidah...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I look forward to your findings on initrd and RAM. Another point of >>> interest, I repacked again with the uefi files (4MB) generated by the >>> script I posted yesterday. It boots efi-mode in qemu >>> (/sys/firmware/efi is present) >>> >>> D >>> >>> On 14 May 2016 at 12:05, KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: >>> > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:45:31AM +0100, David Hare wrote: >>> >> KatolaZ, you may be interested to know, I repacked your iso to 199MB >>> >> (with no actual system modifications) by using xz compression for the >>> >> squashfs and initrd. The result booted fine in qemu. The extra >>> >> decompression time is only a few seconds. >>> >> >>> > >>> > Thanks David, >>> > >>> > this was something I had in the todolist, and is great to know that it >>> > squeezes things so much. I am going to implement it for the next >>> > release. Unfortunately, this will not solve the problem with RAM >>> > requirement due to initrd, but I might have news on that front later >>> > on today :) >>> > >>> > HND >>> > >>> > KatolaZ >>> > >>> > -- >>> > [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] >>> > [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] >>> > [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] >>> > [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dng mailing list >>> Dng@lists.dyne.org >>> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >> >> _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng