[CentOS-devel] C8 minimal (fwd)

Mon Dec 14 19:04:04 UTC 2020
Marko Bevc <marko at bevc.net>

Cool, cheers Stephen!

Looking forward to that ISO as DVD is overkill for minimal installs.

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Marko
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

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> 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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