minimal install

[Martin Olsson]

Last time I checked (in FC2) the minimal install was unfortunately 
heavily bloated. On the other hand, when I did the 'install everything' 
everything worked right away including, usb keyboard (whichs hangs in 
suse), flatscreen at 1280x1024 and sound.


regards,
martin

Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have been an avid Linux user for a long time now, but must say that I 
> have been using Mandrake most of that time. That was because I thought 
> that it was a little more cutting-edge than Red Hat. Now it seems that 
> the price of that cutting edge was that things do not always work as 
> good as you would like.
> 
> Anyway, I am very eager to try Fedora and see if it is more stable and 
> compatible with various other applications.
> 
> I would like to know if someone could either tell me some of the 
> specifics, or direct me to some documentation on the Fedora installer.  
> I want to learn how things are done.
> 
> For example I would like to know where in the Stage2.img is the list of 
> install types and install messages that you see when it is running.
> 
> I would like to see what file Fedora uses to define what the "minimal" 
> install is, or "Server" install list of packages because I need the 
> absolute smallest install + XWindows and the smallest (simplest) window 
> manager.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Lonnie
> 
>