On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 07:31:28PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:

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>
> Steve, I cannot (and I don't want to) make any assumption on behalf of
> potential users of a minimal live system :) The initramfs contains all
> the modules shipped with the standard Devuan kernel, that's why it is
> so fat. In fact, "du -ch /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel" says that
> those sum up to 159 MB, which account for most of the space required
> by the initramfs.
>

Anyway, I have just started working on stripping down the
initramfs. This will probably go on an "experimental" branch, and I
will need people to test the resulting images on as many hw
configurations as possible. I will keep you posted, hopefully with
good news :)

HND

KatolaZ

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