minimal install fc7

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Nov 5 23:21:56 UTC 2007


Thomas Cameron wrote:

>> debian does it easily, with no frigging around at all. And, if I want 
>> openvpn, dar, bacula, amanda. backuppc, Xephyr, or Bozotic, it's just an 
>> apt-get away.
> 
> As does Fedora.  I always do text based installs (seem to me to be
> faster), and when I get to the package install list, I just hit the
> space bar to un-check everything I don't want.  If you un-check
> everything, you get about the same as if you'd kickstarted with @base.
> 
> Then yum allows me to install or groupinstall anything I want out of the
> Fedora world.  Easy.  No need to use Debian.


It's a while since I did a minimal install of Fedora. How much disk does 
it take?

How much RAM does it require to install in text mode?




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