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[bug#40514] Should we shrink the installer by a gig or so?
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
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[bug#40514] Should we shrink the installer by a gig or so? |
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Wed, 08 Apr 2020 22:56:27 +0200 |
Guix,
I've met at least someone who was worried that Guix wouldn't
support their System ‘because the installer fell back to text
mode’. They didn't mean nomodeset: obviously a 1.5-GiB ISO must
be hiding a full desktop somewhere, not just the interface of a
text-mode netinstaller image about 2.5% its total size:
$ du -h Downloads/trisquel-netinst_8.0_amd64.iso
37M …
$ du -h /gnu/store/l005v0ssz34gz5mrg3vpr51sq8sry8wp-image.iso
1.5G …
Now I'm not suggesting we add Gnome (yet), but how about reducing
the size by 60% for 1.1.0?
du -h /gnu/store/jcpg5wsflpymiq3vx929wq2cr0qbw44f-image.iso
561M …
Our CD image finally fits on a CD! Remember those? I try not to.
It also fits onto the ~100 1-‘GB’ USB drives I have in a box and
can now finally give away as Guix installers.
Zisofs is a somewhat obscure, Linux-specific extension to Rock
Ridge that transparently (de)compresses file data using zlib. Our
linux-libre already supports it. As far as the system is
concerned it's just a regular iso9660 file system.
Unlike squashfs (with which I'm currently playing) it requires
zero further changes to the creation or boot process that could
introduce new bugs. Hence I'm hopeful that this can be tested and
merged in time for the next release.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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