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Auteur: David Hare
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Unofficial Devuan Jessie Beta Live Minimal
I look forward to your findings on initrd and RAM. Another point of
interest, I repacked again with the uefi files (4MB) generated by the
script I posted yesterday. It boots efi-mode in qemu
(/sys/firmware/efi is present)

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On 14 May 2016 at 12:05, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
> 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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