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Jason,<br><br>PC LinuxOS solves this by leaving *Office off the CD but having a script called lomanager that installs/removes/updates *Office.<br>They put an icon on desktop for it during Linux install so new user will find it easily.<br>Their LiveCD should let you try it to see if it is an approach you want to take.<br><br>Regards,<br>Bob<br><br><div id="editor_signature"></div>On Wednesday 19/10/2011 at 12:32 pm, Jason Hsu wrote: <blockquote type="cite">One of my challenges in developing Swift Linux is providing preinstalled OpenOffice/LibreOffice WHILE keeping the ISO file small enough to fit onto a CD (under 700 MB). So far, I've been able to do it by cutting features that I consider to be redundant or less essential. Examples include support for languages other than English, extra window managers, extra themes, command-line-only tools that the average Linux user doesn't use, etc.<br><br>Is there a way I can squeeze a given amount of data into a smaller ISO file WITHOUT negative ramifications?<br><br>The two main steps that the antiX Linux remastering script (which the Swift Linux remastering scripts are based on) uses to create the ISO file are:<br>1. make_squashfs $1: The command is "mksquashfs $1 new-iso/antiX/antiX -noappend". This creates an executable file on the CD.<br>2. make_iso $ISONAME: The command is "mkisofs -l -J -pad -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/isolinux.cat -o $1 $REM/new-iso && isohybrid $1 $REM/new-iso".<br><br>All of my remastering scripts are on GitHub at <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/swiftlinux/1-build.">https://github.com/swiftlinux/1-build.</a> (NOTE: I will soon be adding a "z-antix-" to the beginning of each repository name as I switch from an antiX Linux base to a Linux Mint Debian Edition base.)<br><br>-- <br>Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br><br></blockquote><br>
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