Image size limit

[Keith I Myers]

My only concern are for those who live in areas with slow internet
connections. The difference between 1 GB and 1.2 GB could mean an extra 1-2
hours of downloading which could be a problem.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:51 AM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:

>
>
> On 10/08/15 07:41, Alfredo Hernández wrote:
> > Actually it's quite hard to find 1GB USB Keys (I've personally tried to
> buy 1GB pen drives precisely to fit LiveUSBs of different distros).
> > Having said that, I agree about increasing the limit, but we should
> always have in mind that not everyone has fast Internet access, so it's
> > always good to keep the size as small as humanly possible.
> Yes even here many people struggle with download limits and crap internet,
> and recently netflix congestion. So its not like we will just go and
> bloat the image (though it will take a 120MB hit for the next few days
> until I get the getting-started-docs split sorted!)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Alfredo
> >
> > On 9 August 2015 at 07:48, Andrés Muñiz Piniella <
> a75576 at alumni.tecnun.es <mailto:a75576 at alumni.tecnun.es>> wrote:
> >
> >     El 9 de agosto de 2015 11:45:49 GMT+01:00, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm
> <mailto:darkxst at fastmail.fm>> escribió:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >On 09/08/15 19:49, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> >     >> El 9 de agosto de 2015 10:38:39 GMT+01:00, Tim <
> darkxst at fastmail.fm <mailto:darkxst at fastmail.fm>>
> >     >escribió:
> >     >>> What do people think about increasing the size limits on our
> ISO's,
> >     >we
> >     >>> currently have a 1GB limit set, but that is pretty arbitrary and
> was
> >     >>> mainly intended so the image would fit on 1GB usb key. That seems
> >     >like
> >     >>> a somewhat dated requirement these days, with usb keys much
> cheaper
> >     >and
> >     >>> for the most part probably much bigger than 1GB.
> >     >>>
> >     >> Live usb recommend to use at least 2GB size last I checked. The
> free
> >     >usb I got in my latest conference was a credit card size 4Gb.
> >     >We have had the 1GB limit since the very start so 2013 and its not
> been
> >     >reviewed since.
> >
> >
> >     I mean the programs used for liveUSBs.
> >
> >     >>
> >     >> Would 1.5GB be more than enough? Might be an issue for people
> using
> >     >phone networks.also, I'd like some left over space for files and
> >     >updates.
> >     >I'm tempted to set actual the limit at that (the one that fires off
> >     >oversized image warnings), but probably for the forseeable future we
> >     >can
> >     >keep it under 1.2-1.3GB
> >     >>
> >     >
> >     >
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