On 08/18/2012 12:45 AM, Matthew Patton wrote:
>
>> So with that in mind, fancy trying again ?
> pretty please can we put this in the minimal distro? *beg*
> Having multiple copies of a 4G DVD iSO (I have sites all over the place)
> really burns a lot of disk for no good reason. Or maybe "disk1" should be
> like RHEL of yore? About<600MB and it had everything reasonable to expect
> of a basic system?
See below my answer on that. To put it short: your wish will come true.
> While I'm at it, a minimal system shouldn't be lacking the following IMO.
>
> bind-utils
> ntp
> nc
> man (the packages install all the manpages, so why not a way to read them?)
If it was my decision , for the minimal.iso I would tweak anaconda to do
echo "%_excludedocs 0" >> /etc/rpm/macros
prior to install
> wget
>
All the packages that you mentioned and quite a few more will be
included in a CD image which should appear once I manage to make more
free time than I had during the last 6-8 weeks. All the bits needed to
complete the work for this new iso are in my yard but several unrelated
events happened at once and required most of my time since end of June.