FC4 slimfast slimfest

[Joshua Eichorn]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>On Feb 22, 2005, Elliot Lee <sopwith at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Tim Daly wrote:
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>>>An alternative approach is to adopt the Knoppix compressed file system.
>>>Knoppix manages to get about 2.3Gig on a single CD.
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>>The .rpm packages are already compressed, so a compressed file system 
>>won't help here. Thanks for thinking outside the box, though!
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>Talking of compressing stuff...  Couldn't we perhaps compress the
>hdlist and hdlist2 files in Fedora/base?  Could we perhaps merge the
>contents of hdstg2.img and netstg2.img that, given their similar size,
>might be assumed to contain mostly the same contents?  And how about
>stage2.img, if that's a superset?  This certainly wouldn't get us the
>300MB we need, but it could get us 5-15% of that.
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You could also save similar amounts by only shipping either the 
postscript or pdf version of docs and not both. (more if you ship 1 of 
html,ps,pdf)

There really are some easy to get size savings around that don't entail 
dropping packages.
-josh