Fedora minimal install option

Stan Bubrouski stan at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Dec 3 18:48:12 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 11:33, M A Young wrote:
<SNIP>

> 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.
> 

Not at all.  Minimal installs are great on older machines where only a
couple basic services need to be offered.  For instance an old 166MHz
pentium used for a gateway or as an SMTP relay.

-sb

> 	Michael Young
> 
> 






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