[CentOS-devel] CentOS7 minimal install ISO

On 07/13/2014 01:29 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 13/07/14 14:19, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> 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)
>>
> 
> Faster than I thought :
> 
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root   root   633M Jul 13 13:27
> CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-minimal.iso
> 
> Let's try it and also try to cover all features needed now for various
> install scenarios (efi/mdadm/iscsi/fcoe/etc ....)
> 

try the Minimal iso pushed to buildlogs, its best if we are all testing
the same thing

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