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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My workaround works!

Replying to myself:

On 05/01/2011 12:29 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:

> There is a file within the Lubuntu 11.04 ISO called
> casper/filesystem.size but it seems to be unchanged since 2010-09-06 and
> I don't yet know what if anything actually uses it :)

Based on Julien's very handy pointer to the commit that broke this for
us, I just edited the file casper/filesystem.size in the Lubuntu 11.04
ISO image to say

1370000000

(a round-ish number about half the value that was previously in the
file, plus 50MB as a safety margin!) and then updated the md5sum.txt
file to reflect that edit, and created myself a modified ISO image from
the result.

That's a pretty trivial change, but, unlike the official 11.04 image, it
installs and runs fine in a 3GB virtual disk, at least in my initial
testing here (under VirtualBox 4.0.6).

So, we seem to have a code-free workaround :)  I suspect the number
could be lowered to around 900000000 for a 1.8GB size check, but I have
not tested that yet.

I can make this "hacked" ISO available for download, but it is a bit
'dubious' at this point from a support point of view, since it does not
'say' anywhere in its menus etc. that I modified it!  I need it to refer
to itself as 11.04.jm1 or something, so it is clearly not the official
Lubuntu 11.04 version, if there is going to be much use of it.

If anyone has an urgent need for this ISO image, let me know.  It is now
1am here, and I have to go to work tomorrow (today!!) so I don't have
time to create the ".jm1" identified image right now... I need some sleep :)

Jonathan