Re: [CentOS] Installing to USB Drive [TOO]

[Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:48 -0700, Mike wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote: 
...
> > (Group "GNOME Desktop Environment" was too big for the stick.  Might be
> > able to manage a GNOME or KDE environment by careful package selection.
> > The updates and installs could have been done before the move to the USB
> > drive.  Using a larger install partition and cleaning up install
> > packages before the copy operation might have allowed more packages on
> > the target USB device.)

Did try again with a larger initial partition on the hard disk and was
able to "yum groupinstall" both GNOME and KDE, then clean up and fit it
all on the USB stick as described earlier - used 1.7GB with my setup.

...
> Now that sounds achievable.  If I can free some time up this week I'll
> be giving that a try.
> Nice work!

Please report how it goes.

Phil


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