As discussed at uds, put only fital documentation on disc that gets people online so they can read it on help.ubuntu.com.
2011/5/15 Mikhail Maksimov <mcwil...@gmail.com>: > er... someone blamed documentation of some sort... ah, here it is: >> >> One area where Lubuntu has gained weight is the help documentation for >> Gnumeric and Sylpheed, as well as the Gnome language packs. > > quoted from the lubuntu-desktop list archive, March, 20, 2011. > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:39 PM, PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So who is eating the spaces? >> Many some disk-analyzing tools are needed here. >> >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Mikhail Maksimov <mcwil...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, list. >> > >> >> I suspect the number could be lowered to around 900000000 for a 1.8GB >> >> size >> >> check, but I have not tested that yet. >> > >> > No it can not. Tests done on alpha3 show that the system requires at >> > least >> > 2000 MB ("decimal" M) just to install with almost no free space left. >> > Too >> > bad Lubuntu is no longer lightweight in terms of disk footprint. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Mikhail >> > >> > PS I know that the original letter is two weeks old :) >> > >> > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> My workaround works! >> >> >> >> Replying to myself: >> >> >> >> On 05/01/2011 12:29 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: >> >> >> >> > There is a file within the Lubuntu 11.04 ISO called >> >> > casper/filesystem.size but it seems to be unchanged since 2010-09-06 >> >> > and >> >> > I don't yet know what if anything actually uses it :) >> >> >> >> Based on Julien's very handy pointer to the commit that broke this for >> >> us, I just edited the file casper/filesystem.size in the Lubuntu 11.04 >> >> ISO image to say >> >> >> >> 1370000000 >> >> >> >> (a round-ish number about half the value that was previously in the >> >> file, plus 50MB as a safety margin!) and then updated the md5sum.txt >> >> file to reflect that edit, and created myself a modified ISO image from >> >> the result. >> >> >> >> That's a pretty trivial change, but, unlike the official 11.04 image, >> >> it >> >> installs and runs fine in a 3GB virtual disk, at least in my initial >> >> testing here (under VirtualBox 4.0.6). >> >> >> >> So, we seem to have a code-free workaround :) I suspect the number >> >> could be lowered to around 900000000 for a 1.8GB size check, but I have >> >> not tested that yet. >> >> >> >> I can make this "hacked" ISO available for download, but it is a bit >> >> 'dubious' at this point from a support point of view, since it does not >> >> 'say' anywhere in its menus etc. that I modified it! I need it to >> >> refer >> >> to itself as 11.04.jm1 or something, so it is clearly not the official >> >> Lubuntu 11.04 version, if there is going to be much use of it. >> >> >> >> If anyone has an urgent need for this ISO image, let me know. It is >> >> now >> >> 1am here, and I have to go to work tomorrow (today!!) so I don't have >> >> time to create the ".jm1" identified image right now... I need some >> >> sleep >> >> :) >> >> >> >> Jonathan >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> >> Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net >> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong (UndiFineD) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp