minimal install fc7

[Thomas Cameron]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:14 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> lostson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 16:28 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 07:46 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> >>> ervin wrote:
> >>>> Just installed FC 7 ... works well on my Desktop however I need a set
> >>>> of minimal installs  .... in other distributions it's a choice in the
> >>>> install process .... maybe I miss something here ...
> >>>>
> >>>> Where do I find the easy way through to a min install??
> >>>
> >>> I was thinking on this very issue this am, while out for my post-dawn 
> >>> stroll.
> >>>
> >>> I sometimes want to build an appliance, typically a server with one 
> >>> fuction, maybe a backup server, a print server, a firewall, or just a 
> >>> basic Linux system to help rescue a broken Windows.
> >>>
> > <snip>
> > 
> >  Would Revisor possibly work for you for something like this. Create
> > your own iso with revisor, you could make it very minimal with
> > everything you want.
> 
> I presume you're speaking to me?
> 
> 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.
-- 
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, RHCI, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?