Eric Warnke wrote: > All this talk and not much action on the reduction in CD > count. > > I did some poking and proding of FC3 to see what we could get > it down to. I discovered that base had a bad dependancy > issue that cuased much more to be pulled into a base install > than was necessary becase kdebindings was claiming ownership > of /usr/lib/python2.3. Once I started using base+updates > everything sorted itself out nicely. > > Basicly I require 115mb of RPM's ( decompressed ~250mb in > about 45 seconds ) in order to bootstrap a system up to the > point where yum becomes usable. I then copy resolv.conf and > chroot into the system. I can then run yum install [package] > without problem. It turned out to be much easier than I > expected and I'm thinking of continuing to use this process > moving forward to build a simple yum based net install system > in house. I figure I can modify the rescue cd to accomplish > this task, possibly having enough room to also add a basic > gnome install. > > I think some of the scripts were failing because of some > undeclared dependancies on files that need to be created by > an installer, specifically /etc/fstab, so if someone has > documentation on bootstrapping a Fedora based system that > would be helpful. I made an installable fc3 version down to 95 megs of RPMs for a total ISO size of 288M (*.img are bigger than needed and could be reduced too). Peek here: ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/contrib/minifc3/ -Jeff
