Re: Please provide "Minimal CD" of Fedora

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On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 18:08 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Miller
> <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 11:29:37AM -0000, Fa Be wrote:
> > > It will be very beneficial for people if the Fedora project
> > > provides
> > > the Minimal CD images of Fedora. It can attract more users to
> > > Fedora
> > > and is very useful for people who have the internt with
> > > low-bandwidth. Currently I use Debian due to the lack of Minimal
> > > CD
> > > of Fedora.
> > 
> > But then you need to add more stuff later, right? Isn't the network
> > install + downloading specifically what you want a better option
> > anyway?
> 
> I agree that it can be very difficult to define "what you need to add
> later". Gnome or even a compiler are undesirable on a stripped down
> minimal fileserver with Samba capability. Spamassassin may be useful
> on a mail server, but is pointless on anything else. Even the
> netinstall ISO images are burdened by the frankly unnecessary X based
> graphical installer. Anaconda didn't, and shouldn't, need graphical
> displays to operate, and that has contributed to a "netinstall.iso"
> of
> nearly 500 MB for Fedora 25.
Anaconda itself can work just fine without any GUI stuff being
installed (GTK/X/etc.) - providing the text interface + kickstart
installation support. That would make the image quite a bit smaller.

It's just that AFAIK no such (text-only) Fedora installation image is
actually being created at the moment.

>  There was a decision made to make the
> installer itself much more graphically intense and to invent a new
> "spoke and hub" based installation workflow. Unfortunately, if your
> initial setup now requires a 500 MB download to get the bootstrap ISO
> image with all the graphical components to operate at all, it
> convinces me that making the installers so graphical was actually a
> hindrance to developers.
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