to little space on install-cd

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:52:54PM +0300, Alexander Poslavsky wrote:
> Using one disk to install is a really good idea. Downloading 3/4 disk
> just to install and then anyway web-update is silly afaik.

By the final release, updates from the net will only happen for security
updates.

> But one disk is not much. Would using squashfs an idea. It is by
> gentoo-livecd for example.

Most of the files on the install CD are .debs, which are already
compressed. Adding an extra layer of compression generally doesn't help
you at all (it can even increase size in some cases), and would only
increase complexity and slow things down.

Squashfs is useful on live CDs, because most of their content consists
of unpacked versions of packages, so the compression is effective.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]