minimum install

Bret Hughes bhughes at elevating.com
Fri Nov 14 07:01:03 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 23:57, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 14:44 11/12/2003, you wrote:
> >I just had an idea about the minimum install option, if all unused
> >languages are deleted as a post-install, then you would still need 500+ MB
> >to install it.  I wonder if there would be a way to do this just after the
> >RPM was processed instead.
> 
> My minimal install did take about 500MB to install from whatever anaconda 
> gave me, and I've managed to trim about 120MB from that. However, I chose 
> only English installed during Anaconda, and _none_ of the 120MB I have 
> removed came from deleting languages.
> 
> Can you show me where other languages might be hiding, such that I can show 
> a user how to install that one language they want, then nuke all others? 
> (This of course should work for any language, not just English, or I 
> flat-out refuse to do it.)
> 
> Thanks,

Gordon posted a script in another thread with subject  minimal install

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg01436.html

Bret





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