On Feb 22, 2005, Elliot Lee <sopwith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Tim Daly wrote: >> An alternative approach is to adopt the Knoppix compressed file system. >> Knoppix manages to get about 2.3Gig on a single CD. > The .rpm packages are already compressed, so a compressed file system > won't help here. Thanks for thinking outside the box, though! Talking of compressing stuff... Couldn't we perhaps compress the hdlist and hdlist2 files in Fedora/base? Could we perhaps merge the contents of hdstg2.img and netstg2.img that, given their similar size, might be assumed to contain mostly the same contents? And how about stage2.img, if that's a superset? This certainly wouldn't get us the 300MB we need, but it could get us 5-15% of that. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
