FC2 test 1

[Jeff Vian]

Dave Jones wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 18:39, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
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>>>>I just had a look at the FC2 test 1 download for iso's and it is 4 cd's,
>>>>plus a nother 4 for the SRPM's. Wow, 
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>>>Yea, it's not what anyone really wants. Suggestions on what to remove are
>>>most welcome. :)
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>>all the kernel rpms are together around 100MB... ;)
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>kernel-source takes up the bulk of this, weighing in at 40MB.
>That's not going to get any smaller. The actual kernel images
>are around 16MB each, and there's only 4 of them.
>(i586/i586-smp/i686/i686-smp)
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>We're actually shipping *less* kernel RPMs than FC1.
>- No Athlon build
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YIKES,  and what about all the users who have Athalons.  Are you 
planning to force them to compile the kernel right off the bat?


>- No 386 build
>- No bigmem build
>- No debug build (though this will change for the final FC2)
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>I'm not sure we can actually trim it any further without losing
>functionality that some folks may want, or punishing low-end users.
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>We could lose the UP 586 build, and only ship the 586-smp kernel,
>which should run fine, but at a slight performance loss.
>Frankly, to save 16MB I don't think its worth it.
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>	Dave
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