On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 10:14 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote: > > Now, on to @minimal (dunno if that still exists). I used to generate livecd's > > from mandrake back when their @minimal yielded ~300MB. I was building > > appliance livecd's that even stripped some more files, getting it compressed > > down to 135M (fits on a 3" cdr, with X+windowmaker+mozilla+xmms). So @minimal > > was very useful for me, and as I'm now trying to do the same sorts of things > > with fedora, I would hope it still exists, though have been psyching up for > > having to more or less do lots of manual deinstallations as I figure out what > > packages aren't _really_ necessary (which I had to do anyway with the mandrake > > @minimal, to _really_ shave the install size down). Of course, now my target > > is looking more like a 3" 1.8G dvd, but still... I liked @minimal. a lot. I > > hope it lives. > > Well, there's @core and @base each of which installs some smallish > amount of stuff. It's actually more like 800 megs, which is a long way > from where you want to be. But we've had a problem with an ill-defined > minimal install for a while now so perhaps you are used to this. You > can just start with that and remove things you don't want. @core is actually pretty small. It'll get you to a login prompt and not much else and so probably is pretty easily less than 300 megs. @base is more of a "provide the tools most people actually expect to be present on a linux system", and thus, yeah, starts getting a little bigger. It's still not huge, though Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
