Bug#1038440: debian-cd: debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso is too big for a CD

Source: debian-cd
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

I downloaded the "small" debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso (738 MiB)

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

I tried to burn it to a CD-RW disc:

sudo wodim blank=all
sudo wodim -dao debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso

   * What was the outcome of this action?

wodim: WARNING: Data may not fit on current disk.
wodim: Notice: Use -overburn option to write more than the official disk capacity.
wodim: Notice: Most CD-writers do overburning only on SAO or RAW mode.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

The ISO to be small enough to fit on an 80-minute CD (703 MiB).


I'm not sure if I will actually need a CD,
(refurbishing someone's old laptop,
I don't know yet if it will boot from USB stick or not),
but if it can only boot from CD I will have to
install Bullseye (whose netinst does fit on a CD)
and then upgrade, which is not ideal.


Thanks,


Claude

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled