Description of problem: According to Mageia's website, the size of the " Mageia-4-alpha3-i586-DVD.iso " is 3.9 GB. Some programs report it as 3.8 GB, while others up to 4.1 GB. Whichever is the case, it is likely that it won't fit in 4 GB memory flash card (it doesn't fit in mine) because their actual capacity could be as low as 3.69 GB.!!! See: http://gbatemp.net/threads/actual-capacity-of-a-kingston-4gb-micro-sd-card.242473/ USB sticks seem to have the same issue. See: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/275755-32-sandisk-cruzer-flash-drive-formatting-full-size I guess, that the size of the ISOs is related to the maximum size of a file, that a fat32 partition can handle. Now you know of another restriction. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
beside removing lxde and mate which is only partial (it is the rpmsrate that pull some package inside it but not the needed one like (guess) -panel ?) I found nothing personally, cinnamon could be good to keep
Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1
What does the following command show for the "4 GB" card? udisks --show-info /dev/sde |grep -e size Replace sde with the appropriate device.
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
For Kingston SDHC 4GB SD-K04G 1042 WG6417F ... bash-4.2$ udisks --show-info /dev/sdc |grep -e size size: 3957325824 block size: 512
Thanks. So the i586 dvd needs to shrink by 138,412,032 bytes, and the x86 dvd by 98,566,144 bytes. Anne, removing the kernel-source and the qt4-doc from both should be enough to make them fit. I'll keep this bug bookmarked, and check the iso sizes for beta 1.
The beta1 i586 is currently 4150263808 bytes, so it needs to shrink by 192,937,984 bytes. The beta1 x86_64 iso is 4143972352 byes, so it needs to shrink by 186,646,528 bytes. Removing the kernel-source, and qt4-doc would remove around 200MB, and get the iso images to fit on a "4GB" stick.
Whiteboard: (none) => 4beta1Hardware: i586 => All
CC: (none) => eeeemail
kernel devel are needed by dkms but we can certainly drop source if it helps, yes, and qt4-doc. I agree with Dave, these would be easy packages to lose.
both packages added in exclude list of bcd for DVDs
The beta2 x86_64 dvd is currently 3,961,520,128 bytes. Just over the 3,957,325,824 limit. Looking at the packages included, I'd recommend removing stellarium.
Just a reminder, before the new iso images are built that the size limit is 3,957,325,824 bytes, which the latest beta2 x86_64 iso image is over.
Fixed in beta 2 isos
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED
I think this bug should be kept open till the final is released, just to make sure we don't forget about it.
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENEDResolution: FIXED => (none)
Closing this bug. There is now a warning included in bcd to avoid too big isos
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED
Latest final x86_64 dvd is over again.
It needs to shrink by 5,242,880 bytes. I'd remove either gnuchess (18M) or celestia 33M).
Ah, yeah this is a fallout of adding uefi stub to the iso and we also need to add efibootmgr, but that is only ~100k extra
CC: (none) => tmb
LXDE was added back in this last round too. It's looking OK though.
Latest x86_64 dvd iso is 3890216960 bytes, so well within the 3957325824 byte limit. Closing the bug report.
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Mageia-6-dev1-x86_64-DVD.iso is 4395157504 bytes.
Resolution: FIXED => (none)Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
CC: (none) => marja11Whiteboard: 4beta1 => 6dev1
Whiteboard: 6dev1 => (none)Keywords: (none) => 6dev1
CC: (none) => wilcal.int
Mageia-6-sta1-i586-DVD.iso is 30,408,704 bytes over the limit.
Keywords: 6dev1 => 6sta1
To make it easier to fit packages on the the iso's, I think we should change the limit to that of a standard DVD iso, which is about 4.7 Gb or 4.37 Gib. This will give us about 10% more space. Thus requiring a USB key of 8G, since a 4G key has a little less than 4G usable space. 8G USB keys are very inexpensive, and often the smallest size available in many stores.
CC: (none) => andre999mga
(In reply to andré blais from comment #20) > To make it easier to fit packages on the the iso's, I think we should change > the limit to that of a standard DVD iso, which is about 4.7 Gb or 4.37 Gib. > This will give us about 10% more space. > > Thus requiring a USB key of 8G, since a 4G key has a little less than 4G > usable space. 8G USB keys are very inexpensive, and often the smallest size > available in many stores. I agree. 4GB USB flash drives are becoming unavailable in stores, with the next smallest size being 8GB. The DVD size makes sense.
CC: (none) => sharpzq4300
Mageia-6-sta2-i586-DVD.iso DATE.txt: Tue Mar 14 22:44:58 CET 2017 and Mageia-6-sta2-x86_64-DVD.iso DATE.txt: Tue Mar 14 22:53:37 CET 2017 can now be written to 4GB USB drive
CC: (none) => westel
Summary: consider making the size of the clasic istallation iso's smaller => consider making the size of the classic installation iso's smaller
This decision has been made to stop supporting 4GB usb sticks. The limit is now back to being based on the size of a single layer dvd drive, 4.38GiB. Closing the bug report.
For future reference, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD the limit for a +R single layer dvd is 4,700,372,992 bytes.