[CentOS-devel] CentOS7 minimal install ISO

[Fabian Arrotin]

On 13/07/14 02:24, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On 28/06/14 11:44, Anssi Johansson wrote:
>> Please note that some install options will automatically pull in some 
>> extra packages. For example, installing on an encrypted filesystem will 
>> pull in some packages, and installing on software RAID will pull in some 
>> another set of packages. Here's a list of packages that I think are one 
>> way or another affected by this (and their dependencies):
>>
>> chrony
>> cryptsetup
>> cryptsetup-libs
>> device-mapper-event
>> device-mapper-event-libs
>> device-mapper-persistent-data
>> dosfstools
>> efibootmgr
>> grub2
>> grub2-efi
>> grubby
>> libreport-filesystem
>> lvm2
>> lvm2-libs
>> mdadm
>> mokutil
>> shim
>> shim-unsigned
>>
>> I would suggest making sure these packages get included, otherwise some 
>> functionality of the installer may break.
>>
>> anaconda also mentions realmd. I suppose it would get installed if 
>> anaconda needs to access an Active Directory server during installation. 
>> That package depends on PackageKit-glib, libarchive, oddjob, 
>> oddjob-mkhomedir and psmisc. I don't have an AD server here at home, but 
>> I suppose it'd work like 
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_realmd_join_kickstart
> 
> I did a minimal install under VBox this evening then ran yum install for
> the 18 packages listed above. 8 of those were already installed so this
> added 10 to the mix. I didn't include the ones listed as Active
> Directory. I then ran this in the Packages dir of the DVD1 with just the
> rpm names in my txt file:
> 
> $ for f in $(cat /tmp/rpmnames.txt); do ls -la $f-[0-9]*; done >
> /tmp/rpmnls.txt
> $ awk '{ n += $5 } END { print n }' /tmp/rpmnls.txt
> 210154444
> 
> I've now attached that list to my mail in the format discussed on IRC.
> If I'm right about 210MB then I don't think space on a CD will be too
> much of a problem but let's wait and see what it turns out like once
> it's built ;-)
> 
> T

I've also started to produce a minimal.iso (and so packages manifest)
It's not about the packages size, but the size of the install media
*without* any package at all (and metadata) :

5.9M		EFI/
438M	images/ (we can remove boot.iso , obviously -> 76M)
70M		isolinux/
279M	LiveOS/

and we still have to add the packages .. so not sure it will fit on a
single CD. and if the goal is to produce a DVD iso image, I don't think
people will be interested in "wasting" a DVD for a ~1G iso instead of
the normal DVD, that covers both minimal and other "variants" ...

I'll give it a try though (and speaking about minimal, not micro
instance that was mentioned too)

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