Minimal Install Option

Jack Aboutboul jaboutboul at speakeasy.net
Thu Aug 21 15:20:03 UTC 2003


On Thursday, Aug 21, 2003, at 18:09 Asia/Jerusalem, Bill Rugolsky Jr. 
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:38:09AM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
>> File it as a bug! Or maybe you want to step up and be part of a
>> worthwhile discussion as to re-working of the existing minimal install
>> option. Since it seems its really a more a matter of how the packages
>> are grouped and which groups a minimal install actually installs..its
>> more a policy issue than an expert coding issue. This seems like
>> something we can have a nice lovely little community discussion
>> about...instead of just poking repeatedly at the anaconda maintainer 
>> to
>> remove this one package here...or this one other package..or maybe add
>> this one package to minimal. And its certainly a better idea to fix 
>> the
>> current minimal install offering than adding another minimal minimal
>> layer beyond the "broken" minimal.
>>
>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2003-July/msg00569.html
>
> This discussion always tends to conflate different notions of 
> "minimal".
>
> The question is "minimal" w.r.t what criterion?  Is it the bare list
> of packages necessary to get to a login prompt on a standalone machine?
> Is it a networked host?  Is documentation included?  Manpages?
> Info files? /usr/share/doc?
>
> I'd like to see a "bootstrap configuration" that installs enough that
> I can install more using up2date or yum.  That generally means "basic
> networking (and firewalling)" + any specifics needed to get my host
> connected to my network or ISP (i.e., ppp, dhcp, etc.).
>
>
A bootstrap configuration would be nice, but I dont think it would be 
for anaconda proper. Maybe there needs to be something like "linux 
bootstrap". We need to work or this further.

--Jack





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