[CentOS-devel] C8 minimal (fwd)

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 13:12, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > QQ unrelated to all current discussions around C8; is minimal ISO in
> > progress or is it not being produced anymore as part of 8.3 release?
>
> For whatever reason, media building in CentOS 8 has suffered.  There has
> been no live media (and RHEL doesn't have it, right?)... and the minimal
> media has been somewhat broken for some time.  Use the boot or the DVD.
> boot is for net installs.  The minimal from 8.2 was ~1.6GB... so it wasn't
> really minimal.  They have had trouble building minimal media... so I guess
> that's why it was dropped in 8.3.
>
> Is someone working on it?  I don't know.
>
>
It is being worked on in that there will be an iso called minimal. That
said.. it will be similar in size as the previous one. There isn't much
that can be done with how interconnected packages are now.


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