F-13-Beta Live images are > 700Mib

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 14:32:54 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:16:34AM -0400, James Laska wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> The Live images created for F-13-Beta-TC1 desktop are over 700 Mib.
> This means they no longer fit on a CD image.  I've read several posts
> noting the intent to have larger desktop live images to offer more
> software on the image.  I'm just looking to confirm that this is an
> intended behavior so we can update our test case [1].
> 
> Is this due to the DesktopLiveImageTarget [2] feature that I see in the
> upcoming release notes [3]?
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Mediakit_ISO_Size
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DesktopLiveImageTarget
> [3]
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Desktop#From_Live_CD.27s_to_Live_USB.27s

Yes, that's correct -- the default image is intended to be over 700
MiB now.

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