Fedora minimal install option

Mako Gabor makgab at freemail.hu
Thu Dec 4 07:10:08 UTC 2003


03-Dec-2003 fedora-devel-list-request at redhat.com:
> From: M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk>
> The actually minimal install using the standard installer is about 510Mb,
> which you get by deselecting all the optional packages at the right point,
> though you need over 600Mb of diskspace to actually install this.
> 
> The absolute minimum presumably consists of a handful of key packages
> (such as kernel, glibc, initscripts) plus any dependent packages, which
> prbably comes to 2-300 Mb, though this may be too minimal to do anything
> with.
> 

If I would like to create a firewall/gateway with RedHat/Fedora then I must
install the 900MB. It is unnecessary!
Many times the minimal install is necessary with this!

Bye!
Gabor






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