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Message-ID: <20111024180506.GC22049@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:05:06 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: kernel size
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:18:46PM +0400, gremlin@...mlin.ru wrote:
> It looks like we waste too much time on these size issues.
I think we don't, but you say so each time. ;-)
It is reasonable to keep the kernel size sane even without any hard
limit. Maybe "sane" is more like 4 MB rather than 2.8 MB now, though.
> In general, we really should move to isolinux and, as we no
Yes, we should.
> longer sell official CDs, we should not bother of ISO image
> size any more -
I am going to let us exceed 700 MB now - so we'll require DVD media for
Owl-current - but I still think it would be nice to fix that a bit
later, perhaps by introducing a compressed filesystem or by excluding
the sources from our standard ISOs.
> instead of that, we may want to hurry with
> official support for installation from USB flash drive (my
> investigation revealed that will require only some changes
> in owl-startup package).
Would you be willing to contribute a patch against our native tree that
would add a "make usb" target (or whatever we call it)?
Thanks,
Alexander
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