Minimal installation
Walid Shaari
walid at melinux.com
Sun Nov 9 03:07:57 UTC 2003
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 06:15, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:
> Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>
> > At 19:16 11/8/2003, you wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know how low you can go, but I have managed a minimal install
> >> a lot less then the default povided by anaconda package selection, by
> >> creating a kickstart file that explicitely removes packages from
> >> installation ..
> >>
> >> One day I will set some time aside and arrive at the bare-minimimum
> >> kickstart file..
> >
> >
> > I do the same thing for home firewalls and smaller machines, where I
> > often get 1GB drives and even sometimes a 500MB drive. I have
> > consistently kept to 150MB-200MB installs.
> >
> > Perhaps a few of us could cooperate on creating this "smallest"
> > install kickstart file? I will be happy to cooperate, put forth my own
> > efforts, and maybe put up a web page with the list of packages so that
> > we can discuss it. Anyone else want to help? Lox, Michael, Jaroslaw...
> > anyone?
> >
> >
> Hello,
>
> Maybe a "mini" ISO, like what FreeBSD has is needed for Fedora? Just an
> idea.
would that be the rescue Cd, its a redhat live cd in a way with the
minimal stuff required for rescue !!
Walid
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