On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:28:55AM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:22 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > > Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system? > > What do you mean by minimal? If you mean just the base system kernel, libraries, and yum and its dependencies, and you don't want to use kickstart to do it, you can get a reasonable facsimile by installing from the netinstall ISO and deselecting every package group. You need to do this with the "Customize selection" option, rather than simply turning off the small number of extra capabilities shown on the general users screen. If you leave something selected behind the scenes, its dependencies will bring in a lot of non-minimal stuff. The result is about 200 packages (a few hundred MB, depending on how you count exactly) installed, and a text/CLI only system. You'll need to configure the network with system-config-network (since there's no NetworkManager available) and then you can go to town. :-) -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
