On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 02:36:20PM -0400, John.Florian@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Jesse Keating (jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > Well, we do currently have the "minimal" environment, which boils > > > down to @core + the couple things anaconda forces (authconfig, > > > system-config-firewall-base, kernel, bootloader). You can get to > > > that via kickstart with just: > > > > > > %packages > > > @core > > > %end > > > > > > But it's not close to what some of these people want out of a > > > "minimal" install. > > > > For reference: > > > > @core + kernel: > > Install 38 Packages (+157 Dependent packages) > > Total download size: 128 M > > Installed size: 506 M > > > > But hey, I just want something smaller! > > > > systemd + util-linux + bash + initscripts + passwd + yum: > > Install 7 Packages (+132 Dependent packages) > > Total download size: 106 M > > Installed size: 446 M > > > > But hey, I don't need to install packages or want python! > > > > systemd+ util-linux + bash + initscripts + passwd: > > > > Install 6 Packages (+108 Dependent packages) > > Total download size: 94 M > > Installed size: 401 M > > Bill, thanks for that excellent report! It shows me that even if you > strip away some of the "conveniences", you really don't save that much > over our normal "minimal" install. Very enlightening. If you remove files that are also duplicated on the host (assuption: host distro + version = guest distro + version) then you can make things MUCH smaller :-) $ febootstrap --names bash systemd yum $ ll -h * -rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 4.6M Oct 16 08:44 base.img -rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 630K Oct 16 08:44 hostfiles # To reconstruct the image before boot: $ febootstrap-supermin-helper -f cpio base.img hostfiles x86_64 kernel.out initrd.out $ ll -h kernel.out initrd.out -rw-r--r--. 1 rjones rjones 293M Oct 16 08:46 initrd.out lrwxrwxrwx. 1 rjones rjones 33 Oct 16 08:46 kernel.out -> /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.1-1.fc18.x86_64 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
