On 14/12/2020 18:46, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:


On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 13:12, Scott Dowdle <dowdle@montanalinux.org> wrote:
Greetings,

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> QQ unrelated to all current discussions around C8; is minimal ISO in
> progress or is it not being produced anymore as part of 8.3 release?

For whatever reason, media building in CentOS 8 has suffered.  There has been no live media (and RHEL doesn't have it, right?)... and the minimal media has been somewhat broken for some time.  Use the boot or the DVD.  boot is for net installs.  The minimal from 8.2 was ~1.6GB... so it wasn't really minimal.  They have had trouble building minimal media... so I guess that's why it was dropped in 8.3.

Is someone working on it?  I don't know.


It is being worked on in that there will be an iso called minimal. That said.. it will be similar in size as the previous one. There isn't much that can be done with how interconnected packages are now.

It's not how interconnected they are. There are two sets of packages on the iso - it contains both Minimal _and_ Server with GUI selections and thus it's about 900MB bigger than it needs to be. Now whether that can be amended so it doesn't include 4 or 500 unnecessary packages is another question...

Trevor