Believe it or not, this is how we used to create OS distributions back-in-the-day. Fattire even wrote a short poem about it:
So Many Zeroes! A Children's Book By Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. fattire)
Blue had his V2, all shiny and GNU, and wanted to send it, but stopped to review.
"What would this ware weigh, if zipped up today? Should it not be much larger than the SDK?"
And yet it was bigger (nearly one-half a gigger!), but Blue still released it with vim and with vigor.
"A drive is a drive, at any old size! But a drive is alive when its zero'ed to thrive!"
So Blue packered his tracks with a /