Reduce an ISO size

Andreas B. Mundt andi.mundt at web.de
Sat Feb 4 17:18:08 CET 2012


Hi David,

On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 04:45:34PM +0100, David Touzeau wrote:

> I have created an FAI only to run only for 64bits systems
> 
> The final ISO is about 600Mb
> 
> When i do a fait-mirror it download these packages.
> Downloading packages for classes: AMD64 CHROOT DEFAULT DHCPC FAIBASE
> GRUB I386 I686 LILO SAMBA
> 
> Is there any tip/trick to reduce the ISO size by removing any
> i386/i586 packages or toher package specific to not used systems ?

I guess you can use

  fai-mirror -v -c <CLASSES YOU NEED SEPERATED BY ','>

something like 

     fai-mirror -v -c     AMD64,CHROOT,DEFAULT,DHCPC,FAIBASE,GRUB,LILO,SAMBA

in your case.  See man fai-mirror.

Best regards,

     Andi





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