>Concretely:
>
> 199,6 MiB (209.297.408 bytes)
>
>Isn't it?

actually, here it shows 198.1MB (207,740,928 B)

However my repack script is currently set to remove *.pyo and *.pyc
(to save space). Also, i never seem to get exactly the same result
from mksquashfs, even with exactly the same input files.

D

On 14 May 2016 at 13:25, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
> The standard Debian initrd has grown enormously since the days of squeeze..
>
> The devuan-minimal iso's initrd is 27.1 MB gzip-compressed, 18.6
> xz-compressed and.. 186.1MB unpacked!
>
> Far as I know it's freed after switch_root but I assume the point here
> is what to do for very low-ram systems..
>
>
> D
>
> On 14 May 2016 at 12:39, . fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
>> I was able to boot the minimal i386 in virtualbox with 175mb ram, but not
>> with 170 or less.
>>
>> I'm a little surprised that it wants all that. Back in the days of Squeeze,
>> I was able to boot an older version of Refracta (with e17, put together by
>> meandean) and whatever version of Antix was current then with only 64mb ram
>> on hardware. Has the initrd grown that much since then?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 7:32 AM, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> D
>>>
>>> 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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