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As discussed at uds, put only fital documentation on disc that gets
people online so they can read it on help.ubuntu.com.


2011/5/15 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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