Best way to get minimal system
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Tue Jan 5 21:05:18 UTC 2010
Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:28:55AM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:22 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
>>> Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system?
>> What do you mean by minimal?
>
> If you mean just the base system kernel, libraries, and yum and its
> dependencies, and you don't want to use kickstart to do it, you can
> get a reasonable facsimile by installing from the netinstall ISO and
> deselecting every package group.
>
> You need to do this with the "Customize selection" option, rather than
> simply turning off the small number of extra capabilities shown on the
> general users screen. If you leave something selected behind the
> scenes, its dependencies will bring in a lot of non-minimal stuff.
>
> The result is about 200 packages (a few hundred MB, depending on how
> you count exactly) installed, and a text/CLI only system. You'll need
> to configure the network with system-config-network (since there's no
> NetworkManager available) and then you can go to town. :-)
>
I think I remember a click box for "minimal system" install, which was a good
idea for this.
Suggestion: This would be a great option to have at the start of a custom
installation, to uncheck everything for the user, who could then install the
minimal things needed from there. In other words, it would be a starting point,
not "this is all I want" option.
On servers it is sometimes useful to have a few X applications to be run to a
server on remote machines withut a local server and the tom of cruft that entails.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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