[CentOS-devel] Old issue with Minimal ISO

[Karanbir Singh]

Hi,

On 30/07/15 14:00, Leam Hall wrote:
> 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.

Simple builds for base machines is exactly what the minimal iso is meant
to target, we dont intend to fork the entire distro into a minimal set
and haveto support it like that,

> 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.

I am not sure what you mean by that ? We do set expectations for the
minimal iso and your use case isnt one of them.

- KB


> 
> 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.



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