Re: [CentOS-devel] how minimal is a minimal too minimal

On 03/19/2014 07:33 PM, Jaime Melis wrote:

Hi Jeff,

How small have you made (1) ? do you have a kickstart file for it?

feel free to get inspiration from http://ur1.ca/gvv6v

In my personal case I'd like to see (2) though, but I'll take what you have :)

cheers, Jaime

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Jeff Sheltren <jeff@tag1consulting.com mailto:jeff@tag1consulting.com> wrote:

Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
> the aim being to setup a base image, that is under 150mb to
download and
> deploy.
>
>

I think there are (at least) two different types of "minimal" that
could
(and should) be provided.

1) "working server minimal" which would have at least yum and sshd --
this could be similar to what we do for minimal now, though I'm not
totally opposed to shrinking it down a bit more.

2) "really really minimal -- and we mean minimal!" -- where the
goal is
to strip out as much as possible, no docs, no yum, no ssshd, etc.

I don't have a use for (2) personally, but use (1) -- or at least
one of
my own making -- quite frequently.  I'd be happy if we could keep
both.

-Jeff