I'd still like to get it down to something reasonable. I don't get a
call very often for the 30-something DVD making a distribution's package
repository offline, either.
I'm almost fully installed on something I'm working on, and it's showing
about 3.8 GB out of a terabyte. I'd consider a 4GB "key", but I'm not
done building.
I have a USB with almost all my software, 512GB.
Charlie
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On 2/9/2026 8:42 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Mon, 9 Feb 2026 08:04:40 -0700 Charles Chambers <[email protected]> wrote:
Because pretty much all optical drives take CD's. I'd consider key-type
USB, but they don't have the file volume of a DVD.
Huh? I have USB flash drives with a capacity of 64G and USB flash drives with
capacities of up to 256G are readily available. A single sided DVD is like
4G. Actually "tiny" compared to USB flash drives...
Charlie
On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 7:59 AM Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Can anyone offer any advice on how to cut down the size of an
autoinstall DVD (CD)?
I have one stripped of most packages, with system utilities only, and
the image is still over 800MB.
I'd like to fit it onto a CD.
Why do you care that much about the size? These days most people are
using USB sticks anyway. And blank DVD-R media costs no more than
CD-R if you do need optical.
The biggest thing that has made Debian media grow in the last couple
of releases is the addition of non-free-firmware. If you're *100%*
sure you don't need that, then build without it.
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