Re: Minimum RAM for CentOS7

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:48 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/7/2014 3:40 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>> Well they did have the opportunity to make changes in the minimal iso
>> since that doesn't directly correspond to a RHEL version.   I haven't
>> used it yet because I already had the dvd downloaded, but if you have
>> reasonable internet bandwidth, I think a minimal initial install makes
>> sense, followed by telling yum to install whatever else you might need
>> since there's a good change you'll download them as updates anyway.
>
>
> the RPMs are all the same RPMs.   they woudl have had to build a completely
> new installer rather than just a kickstart that specifies the minimum
> packages

It might be possible to trim the size of the ramdisk that is a large
part of the requirement.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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