Edgy on DVD only ?

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:53:34PM +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> IIRC, at first, Ubuntu made a point to fit on 650MB CD's, to be
> compatible with old CD drives or something. But this was not sustainable
> apparently, and soon, all images exceeded this limit. Now I just looked
> at the size of the Flight-7 images, and most of them are a split hair
> from the 700MB limit, like the Mac LiveCD that's 697MB ! :-O
> Phew that was close...

We generally pack the CD images up to the limit with language packs, so
there's more room to move than you think.

> While I am at it, there is something I never quite understood... on
> every install CD, there is a /pics folder containing nothing Debian
> artwork/pics. They only add up to 15KB or so, but given the problems
> there were to fit on 650MB, and now on 700MB, and given that we don't
> even use this artwork in the Ubuntu installer, and given that I thought
> Ubuntu aimed at being "neutral", a base that can be easily re-branded by
> others, well, I have pulled all my hair trying to understand why these
> Debian only files are on the CD ?
> There must be a good reason... just can't figure it out...

It's never been worth my time to hack debian-cd, installation-guide,
etc. to avoid this.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]