On 05/24/2011 10:24 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
"Missing stuff" is not a big problem if you can get to the point where yum works. I'd love to see an absolutely minimal CD/USB with just the filesystem and raid tools you might need to prepare a disk/raid set and then do an install to the point where the network and yum works. If you are concerned about matching what the DVD install contains you could include scripts with the package lists to pull in later.
Patrice wasn't talking about trimming the CD by selecting a smaller package set, he was talking about trimming the CD by setting up the live CD filesystem and then removing documentation and other "excess stuff". If such a CD were prepared and users installed the content of the live CD to their hard drive, those things would remain missing. Yum wouldn't fix it.