[CentOS-devel] Using Centos as embedded linux.

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Fri Jan 11 23:13:24 UTC 2008


Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez wrote:

> 
> I have been thinking to slim centos by recompiling every RPM without the 
> docs and several other tricks to make it less fatter.. of course it wont 
> be the real centos but some sort of reduced copy.

rpm supports omitting docs. You might need to fiddle anaconda or yum to 
choose the right way.
> 
> BTW, I found that debian was easier to install in such a hardware 

That's my thinking.



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