[CentOS-devel] Old issue with Minimal ISO

[Leam Hall]

The minimal install is a great tool for doing simple builds for base 
machines. The regular DVD puts in a lot of cruft and a Kickstart build 
assumes you have a kickstart infrastructure.

It really seems a matter of "do it right or don't do it at all." If you 
have a minimal install ISO, please have it meet the same expectations 
the other images meet. In many cases the minimal install is much more 
useful than a net or prompt based install.

Leam


On 07/30/15 08:47, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 27/07/15 14:17, leam hall wrote:
>> Sorry if I'm on the wrong list. I got bit by Bug 5589
>> (https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5589). It's a couple years old and
>> looks to be a simple fix. Anything I can do to help?
>
> When we setup the minimal iso - I believe this was a decision taken by
> design, to not have this media be a replacement for the regular distro
> install media. Mostly since kickstart and option based installs will
> largely differ in terms of what works and does not work properly ( and
> we dont test the minimal iso for use in this case ).
>
> If you need to use the media in a loopback format, use the DVD media
> instead.
>
> For what the bug report says, a better way to run the install is to use
> the iso as an iso and just attach an empty disk to the same vm, power it
> up and you get the minimal install working just fine.
>
>