[CentOS] Smallest install?
R P Herrold
herrold at centos.org
Tue Jul 6 00:12:03 UTC 2010
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 06:33:57PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
>> There are lower thresholds one cannot go below and still stay
>> wih current updates. My article on 'tiny centos' provides
>> 'slimming scripts' to trim away coherent sets to taste
>> while still satisfying dependencies
>> http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/
>
> Hmm. If I'm reading the script correctly then the trouble with that
> is that it needs more space initially before it removes the unnecessary
> stuff.
yep -- it is a 'subtractive' process, iterative as well
> Also your 4.4 build is larger than an anaconda created 5.0..
I am not at all surprised. The purpose of that page after
initially written was do describe a method to trim, usually
done inside an existing install but down again inside a
chroot, to build package lists for determining self-hosting
minima for rebuilding efforts
>> be made much smaller. Just because one is familiar with
>> hammers does not mean one should be shaving cats with one
>
> There's a few reasons:
> 1) Can I? The challenge :-)
> But #1 is the main reason :-)
fine by me -- but the cat may object
--Russ herrold
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