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[Mikhail Maksimov <mcwillin@xxxxxxxxx>]

er... someone blamed documentation of some sort...  ah, here it is:

*One area where Lubuntu has gained weight is the help documentation for
> Gnumeric and Sylpheed, as well as the Gnome language packs.*


quoted from the lubuntu-desktop list archive, March, 20, 2011.

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:39 PM, PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So who is eating the spaces?
> Many some disk-analyzing tools are needed here.
>
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Mikhail Maksimov <mcwillin@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi, list.
> >
> >> I suspect the number could be lowered to around 900000000 for a 1.8GB
> size
> >> check, but I have not tested that yet.
> >
> > No it can not. Tests done on alpha3 show that the system requires at
> least
> > 2000 MB ("decimal" M) just to install with almost no free space left. Too
> > bad Lubuntu is no longer lightweight in terms of disk footprint.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mikhail
> >
> > PS I know that the original letter is two weeks old :)
> >
> > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
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