Let's keep this discussion on the mailing list.
Elsewhere in the discussion, I think we talked about unzipping the
packages. I'm not sure what the "live" part of the ISO would be, but maybe
that only needs to boot up the BASE packages (it doesn't make sense to have
DEVEL on the "live" part, for example).
That would minimize the size of the ISO, because the "live" part would be
fairly small, and the packages to install would be zipped.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Jim, Rugxulo,
>
> > I think "too big" is relative here. The fd11src.iso is less than 40MB
>
> The "fdfullcd" ISO was 150 MB and if I remember correctly, that was
> the size with zipped packages: Installing all packages to directories
> and then turning the result into an ISO could be 100s of megabytes.
>
> Adding source codes will increase size further, but for the sources
> the zipped version will be totally sufficient even on a live iso :-)
>
> Regarding the "driver to mount encrypted disks", I think there is a
> tool in the SHSUCD suite which mounts (of course read-only) ISO disk
> images as if they were CD or DVD disks. I am not aware of any "disk
> backed ramdisk" tool, not even without encryption, but I would not be
> surprised if Rugxulo had something in his collection. For example the
> memdisk tool can "unpack and mount", but it cannot write back data.
>
> Regards, Eric
>
>
>
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