On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 06:33:57PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:

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/

Hmm. If I'm reading the script correctly then the trouble with that is that it needs more space initially before it removes the unnecessary stuff.

Also your 4.4 build is larger than an anaconda created 5.0..

I've built smaller configs for my user-mode-linux setup, but these don't necessarily have dependency tree completeness :-)

$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.4 (Final) $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ubda 436M 313M 124M 72% / tmpfs 16M 0 16M 0% /tmp

Of course there's no kernel, no boot loader etc. It _does_ work yum, so I can upgrade with 'yum update'.

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

There's a few reasons: 1) Can I? The challenge :-) 2) Familiarity 3) No need to keep tracking and patching a different OS build

But #1 is the main reason :-)

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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!

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.

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On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Niki Kovacs wrote:

You might consider one of those fine super-lightweight distributions like Slitaz or Tiny Core, both excellent.

I'd like to second the recommendation for Slitaz. Of all the small distributions, it's the one I find most impressive:

http://www.slitaz.org/

On 07/06/2010 09:16 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:

Stephen Harris a écrit :

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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)

With CentOS 5.5, select [*] Customize Package Selection, and then in the following screen, deselect everything, even [*] Base. You still get a coherent system.

This actually what i do to install a minimal CentOS on VM using only the first CD iso

there's also Orange JeOS [1]

[1] http://orangejeos.sourceforge.net/

HTH