On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:16:54 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
What I've always wanted is a very minimal install iso that will get the machine to a point where yum works. And some moderately large number of pre-selected lists of packages you could tell yum to install either as group names yum knows about or just big lists of package names that someone familiar with them thinks would be suitable for some type of usage (office workstation, development system, media player, web server, etc.), and some tool to grab and maybe edit this list from your minimal (non-GUI) base install.
+1
Alternatively, why not introduce a 8GB image for usb keys? Or a simple method (say, a shell or python script) that would fetch everything from the net and locally put together a bootable usb?