Fedora 9 x86_64 LiveCD fit on CD???

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Mar 18 16:32:53 UTC 2008


Robi (robi.petranovic at gmail.com) said: 
> So, you are filling the LiveCD with i686 packeages until the maximum
> ~700MB, and then do the exact copy with x86_64 packages???

There's a specific package set that's chosen.

> 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...

Because then all the i386 users will complain about the missing
functionality? It's a losing game any way you look at it. If you
have a x86_64 box that only has a CD drive (unlikely), you can
run the 32-bit CD image.

Bill




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