Using FAI to build custom Debian install and iso?

[Niall Young]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Bruce  Edge wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Peterson [mailto:oroville_dan at yahoo.com]
> >
> > yet, but just out of curiosity, how large is the iso
> > image it creates?
>
> Depends on what packages you include.
> By default it will grab all packages defined in all of your package_config/* files, however you can exclude classes from inclusion into the depot that it builds.
> My CD image is about 500 Meg. I'm including X, KDE, compilers, debuggers, development stuff, many editors, basically everything I could think of that might be of some use. So that's 500 meg at full bloat.

Mine's pretty minimal and sits around 180MB.  With a cloop though we
could fit ~2.5-3G on a 700MB CD like Knoppix does...

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