On 14/12/2020 18:46, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 13:12, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org > <mailto: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. It's not how interconnected they are. There are two sets of packages on the iso - it contains both Minimal _and_ Server with GUI selections and thus it's about 900MB bigger than it needs to be. Now whether that can be amended so it doesn't include 4 or 500 unnecessary packages is another question... Trevor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20201214/27c6ffc7/attachment-0005.html>