PhysicsBrown
October 13th, 2009, 02:52 AM
I'd like to try whatever I can to reduce the size of my Ubuntu 9.04 installation. It *should* be easy to uninstall a bunch of low-priority stuff, such as all the games and the Presentation (Impress) and Drawing features of OpenOffice. I've used Applications -> Add/Remove to uninstall some things, but am not sure this is actually reducing the size of the installation or if perhaps it is retaining all the files somewhere.
I'm trying to "clone" an installation of Ubuntu 9.04 to a bunch of old laptops for my physics students. Each laptop has a CD-ROM and a single USB 1.1 port. Trying to use a nice utility called remastersys to build a live CD containing my system, I run into a tough problem: The custom.iso file it creates is too big to fit on a CD. And these laptops are not capable of booting from a USB port.
Any suggestions how I can reduce the size of the installation? When I do a raw installation of 9.04, then use remastersys to create a custom.iso file, it is barely under the 700 MB limit for a CD. But then Update Manager needs to do a huge number of updates, which brings the system size to over 800 MB. And then I also need to install the Java and Flash plug-ins. This all has to be set up by me at home, because the school district won't allow these laptops to be connected to their network! :confused:
As a last resort, I can try removing OpenOffice totally. But it would be nice to retain the word processor and spreadsheet for my students to use.
I'm trying to "clone" an installation of Ubuntu 9.04 to a bunch of old laptops for my physics students. Each laptop has a CD-ROM and a single USB 1.1 port. Trying to use a nice utility called remastersys to build a live CD containing my system, I run into a tough problem: The custom.iso file it creates is too big to fit on a CD. And these laptops are not capable of booting from a USB port.
Any suggestions how I can reduce the size of the installation? When I do a raw installation of 9.04, then use remastersys to create a custom.iso file, it is barely under the 700 MB limit for a CD. But then Update Manager needs to do a huge number of updates, which brings the system size to over 800 MB. And then I also need to install the Java and Flash plug-ins. This all has to be set up by me at home, because the school district won't allow these laptops to be connected to their network! :confused:
As a last resort, I can try removing OpenOffice totally. But it would be nice to retain the word processor and spreadsheet for my students to use.