Re: Feature Request : canned minimum

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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?
>
> 	Iirc that there was such a thing, I'm sure there were reasons for
> dropping it. (I can imagine one : my minimum may not be your minimum.)
>
> 	However, with half a dozen variations on the sub-notebook
> computer coming on the market, there is bound to be an increased need.
>
> 	Case in point : I have F8 installed, booting,, and connecting on
> an EeePC with a 4 GB hard drive -- using, admittedly, install to an 8 GB
> thumbstick, helped along by a 4 GB SD memory card.
>
> 	However, I'm going to have to do a *lot* of pruning to get it
> down to something usable -- an inordinately tedious job, even with pirut.
> I keep hitting dependency hells, and sometimes consequences that would
> remove something I need to keep -- such as saving my gnome-session from
> login to login.
>
> 	Wouldn't it be easier, for those who try to do the like, to start
> from bones as bare as even the experts could get them, and add in
> necessities -- rather than the way it is now?
>
> 	I don't really need to know all that gnome-session depends on, or
> all that depends on it. I just need to know how much space it will cost
> to add it and its dependencies if I *don't* have it, and so on for other
> apps, till I can tell whether I'll be able to run Fedora at all on a
> given new tiny machine.
>
> 	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.
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Evangelist
> Fedora 8; Ubuntu 7.10; CentOS 5.1; Alpine 1.0, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6
> Remember I know little (precious little!) of what I am talking about.

Beartooth:
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. 

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.

-- cmg

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