On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 16:37 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > More fundamentaly it is not clear to me whether some packages > that are special, for example the kernel, glibc, util-linux, rpm... itself > are necessary or not. I don't have personnally a need for such a > minimal fedora based install, but I ask because other may like to have > it. So, yes. You need a linux kernel to boot. You need something which provides libc. If you want it to be Fedora, it needs to have rpm. util-linux (or its equivalent functionality) is necessary if you want expected UNIX functionality (like kill, mount, etc). ~spot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list