Fedora minimal install option

Gene C. czar at czarc.net
Thu Dec 4 22:38:20 UTC 2003


On Thursday 04 December 2003 14:21, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Mako Gabor (makgab at freemail.hu) said:
> > If I would like to create a firewall/gateway with RedHat/Fedora then I
> > must install the 900MB. It is unnecessary!
>
> I could have sworn minimal was somewhere between 450 and 500MB. I'll
> have to re-check that.

Minimum is around 510MB although you need at least a 600MB to 650MB partition 
to actually do the install.

>From time to time, a minimal install has pulled in some extra stuff (like 
devel packages and there are some packages that I see little need for in a 
minimal system (such as aspell/aspell-en).  However, I sense that there is 
little insentive for the Red Hat folks to spend any time really trimming out 
these extras.  Furthermore, I doubt that it could be made significantly 
smaller.
-- 
Gene





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