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[Jeremy Bicha <jeremy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 May 2011 04:30, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Be careful about how low you set the number. It can make it difficult
to install any additional software and likely more worrying, it can be
impossible to upgrade if there is not space to download and unpack the
updates.

Jeremy Bicha