The i386 CD iso

hhh · 2020-07-19 13:18:58

Downloading, I should be able to install it this evening.

johnraff · 2020-07-20 00:30:40

That second one should be identical, except for the bugfix (I should have mentioned that), so it doesn't really matter which one you install to test.

hhh · 2020-07-20 03:06:08

Installing it now, I'll give you feedback tomorrow.

hhh · 2020-07-20 03:24:02

Posting from a LIVE session using dillo. Holy fuck is it ugly. My eyes are bleeding. I'm in early Internet Hell.

Looks really solid, John. I say push it. Installing it now, but I don't think there will be any problems.

hhh · 2020-07-20 04:25:46

BunsenLabs, where the future is being made today.

So, fonts-noto takes a long time to install, three whole minutes.

Bloody brilliant, RAM never got over 290 running 'sudo apt install bunsen-meta-all' in lxterminal.

Is there room for our GUI Debian Installer?

That's all. Push it, it's brilliant. An elegant solution to the giant problem of getting a LIVE Debian installer onto a flipping CD. Bloody brilliant.

No swap partition was harmed for this screenshot. It was created immediately after and is happy in its new home.

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johnraff · 2020-07-20 04:57:20

Yeh Dillo is quite ugly. I tweaked a couple of colours in dillorc to get a little bit closer to Lithium (eg greyish bg instead of fawn), but didn't get too deeply into it. I rather doubt there's very much can be done to pretty it up. But it is fast!

fonts-noto is huge. No problem on modern machines of course.

On my VM with 1GB of memory it boots to about 180MB RAM. Laptop too. Of course that soon goes up with use.

Back with the Helium CD iso I looked at what was taking up space, and the Debian graphical installer was a biggish chunk, so it was dropped. But now we've got 18MB spare, so first I'll have a quick look at the Lithium full iso and see how many MB it is there. If it looks close, I'll try another CD build with the graphical installer included and we can see what it comes to...

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When the CD iso is all settled (just the installer) I'll do a fresh build of the full iso with the latest packages, write the techy release notes and it'll be with you to write The Announcement. We'll also have to make some changes on the BL website, and host the iso images of course.

Nearly there.

hhh · 2020-07-20 05:06:07

Yes, we're looking good.

johnraff · 2020-07-20 05:47:34

I just had a look at the full-size iso and the graphical installer occupies an extra 50MB over the text-only version. There's no compression at the top end of the directory tree, so that would take the iso to something like 730MB. I don't think it's worth doing a trial build.

Helium CD had no graphical installer either.

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