Brunner, Brian T. wrote:

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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 with 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/

Thank you! Since I also want to make a tiny flash-based centos, I'll look into this!

Timny, flash-based? I recently bought an 8GB USB key for a netbook distro instal, and we have two here at work for some of our rackmounts that have no DVD reader.

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Just because one is familiar with hammers does not mean one should be shaving cats with one

That depends, in part, on how much one dislikes cats.

Shaving pissed-off tomcats is best done with welding gloves and apron, and a hammer.

Um, that may not work, he says, thinking of his friend in the US northwet with a full-sized cougar.*

ObDiscllosure: cat lover; likes dogs ok, otherwise I'd suggest grooming your dog with a hammer.

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