Feature Request : canned minimum
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 20:05:48 UTC 2008
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Beartooth <Beartooth at swva.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:53:29 -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>
> > On Monday 03 March 2008 3:44:54 pm Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
> >> Didn't anaconda use to include an option to do a minimum install?
> [...]
>
> >> I don't know whether the feature is feasible, much less why or
> >> why not; but I'd sure be glad of *some* easier way.
>
>
> > How about starting with one of the live CDs? Less to trim, easier to
> > update and you can then add various bits and pieces to fit within your
> > space budget. I did that last week using the Live KDE version of F8, and
> > it went very well.
>
> Hmmm .... I *think* I tried that ...
>
> I tried so many things that I've not only forgotten why I gave
> upon which, but even what all I tried. Otoh, I was wondering last night
> whether I ought to try it again ...
>
>
> > I should point out that space isn't a problem here -- I've got a 320 GB
> > hard drive and had plenty of space for Fedora. I was just trying to cut
> > down all of the time spent installing, upgrading and then maintaining a
> > bunch of stuff that I don't need and don't use.
>
> IOW, the feature would be welcome, if it were to (re)appear, in
> more places than just among early adopters of tiny machines.
>
> I remember I tried EeeDora first of all; the deviser of it had
> obviously put a lot of work into it, and I've been seeing more than I
> want of how much that really was.
>
> I'm pretty sure the trouble there, once I got the right version,
> was that his minimum wasn't my minimum. It seems several of the
> minimalist distros -- Knoppix, DSL, and several others -- still use a
> kernel that's not compatible with the hardware in the EeePC. But EeeDora
> was made from F8.
>
> At this point, I'm down to where I can hardly remove half a dozen
> apps without getting a dependency requirement I'm not willing to live
> with. Pretty soon I'll have to start not only removing one at a time, but
> rebooting every time.
>
> Stay tuned.
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Therein lies the rub: Their minimum is not your minimum.
Use pungi and create your own distribution.
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