On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:16:54 -0500 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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? -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org http://f5j.eu