Philip Rowlands wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, dan wrote:
Is there some sort of template that you guys use to create and install
a minimalistic install set, that is small but functional? I'm about to
start going through the comps.xml template and picking and choosing
what I want/need, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel if necessary.
Minimal as in lightweight, or minimal as in
must-fit-on-a-64MB-flash-card? If the latter, then a stock Fedora
install won't cut it.
If you merely wish to improve build times and decrease disk usage,
however, try specifying just the @Base group and any other individual
packages you need. IIRC this gives something in the low-hundreds MB.
Cheers,
Phil
Phil -
Like I said, I've accomplished a small install aroudn the neighborhood
of 480M, which works, but I'd like to go smaller.
The target platform is not an embedded one, I just want to cut down on
the whole system footprint, and would like to take a proactive approach
to security by installing only the most required of packages. From
there, I can add to the system what I see fit, and when i see fit. I
don't care about flash cards (but that'd be pretty cool, huh??), I want
"minimal as in lightweight".
IIRC, the manual states that @Base and @Core groups are installed by
default, however, I believe specific packages can be "removed" from
those groups, or not installed, by prefixing each package name with a
"-" under %packagse. I'm going to try to give this a shot.
Regardless, I'll report my findings.
Thanks!
-dant
