Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 16:28, adam at ausics.net wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> 
> > 3) better definition of a truly bare-bones server install
> 
> I support this one.
> 
> Why must I waste min 64 megs ram on an old gateway box, I like the idea of
> able to bare bones install on 32 megs ram or less, i have a 486 gw box
> ran for years, no need to upgrade it for what it does, still runs a VERY
> ancient version of RH because it has 8 megs ram and nothing since rh6 will
> install, to put a modern OS on it i could put slackware, but why
> slackware, when RH should do this as it used to, a text install should
> use SFA as it doesnt need gui..

I'd really like to see a diet-Fedora iso which just does minimal setup
of partitions, formatting, base install etc, and doesn't do any package
installation etc until firstboot. If this were to happen, AIUI, the
biggest part of the "needs at least 64MB to install" problem would go
away.

Once we have bare-bones Fedora installation materials like this, the
doors would be open to all sorts of other fun projects like for e.g. a
firewall project based on Fedora.

	Dave