Could a real minimal install be added in F7 or F8?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue May 22 22:16:03 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 22 May 2007 18:12:36 Mark wrote:
> Hey,
>
> i was just trying to install fedora as minimalistic as possible but even
> with all the "groups" turned off there are still tons of things that i
> don`t need.
> What i would like to see is that fedora gets a aditional option during
> installation: "Minimal Installation" or "Bone Install" (you name it.. as
> long as it is minimal). at this moment you can choose serveral packahge
> types like: office or server (there is a third one.. i forgot the name) but
> could a minimal be added? so just the pure basics + yum.
>
> A situation where i want to do this minimal install:
> - a absolute minimal install in vmware to test some things

You probably want to spin your own Fedora and re-define what is in the @Core 
group.  Good news is that you can use pungi to do this.  
http://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/pungi

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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