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Author: KatolaZ
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To: David Hare
CC: dng, aitor_czr
Subject: Re: [DNG] Unofficial Devuan Jessie Beta Live Minimal
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:45:31AM +0100, David Hare wrote:
> KatolaZ, you may be interested to know, I repacked your iso to 199MB
> (with no actual system modifications) by using xz compression for the
> squashfs and initrd. The result booted fine in qemu. The extra
> decompression time is only a few seconds.
>


Thanks David,

this was something I had in the todolist, and is great to know that it
squeezes things so much. I am going to implement it for the next
release. Unfortunately, this will not solve the problem with RAM
requirement due to initrd, but I might have news on that front later
on today :)

HND

KatolaZ

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