On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Stephen Harris wrote:
I have a 500Mb ATA Flash drive in my machine. If I deselect everything at install time (CentOS 5.0 - just for testing) it still requires 524Mb. Is there any way of doing an even smaller install?
Run a pre 5 series install and it is straightforward to hold size down
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/
But to me, the question really is -- Is CentOS the right distribution for this? -- a minimal Debian Testing install can be made much smaller. Just because one is familiar with hammers does not mean one should be shaving cats with one
-- Russ herrold