I have a 500Mb ATA Flash drive in my machine. If I deselect everything at install time (CentOS 5.0 - just for testing) it still requires 524Mb. Is there any way of doing an even smaller install? -- rgds Stephen
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Stephen Harris wrote:> I have a 500Mb ATA Flash drive in my machine. If I deselect everything at > install time (CentOS 5.0 - just for testing) it still requires 524Mb. Is > there any way of doing an even smaller install?Run a pre 5 series install and it is straightforward to hold size down There are lower thresholds one cannot go below and still stay wih current updates. My article on 'tiny centos' provides 'slimming scripts' to trim away coherent sets to taste while still satisfying dependencies http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/ But to me, the question really is -- Is CentOS the right distribution for this? -- a minimal Debian Testing install can be made much smaller. Just because one is familiar with hammers does not mean one should be shaving cats with one -- Russ herrold
On 07/05/2010 03:06 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:> I have a 500Mb ATA Flash drive in my machine. If I deselect everything at > install time (CentOS 5.0 - just for testing) it still requires 524Mb. Is > there any way of doing an even smaller install?Prepare a kickstart file using system-config-kickstart. In the %packages section, list only "@core". See how that fits your needs. You'll probably end up adding additional packages, like "yum" to the %packages section.
Stephen Harris a ?crit :> I have a 500Mb ATA Flash drive in my machine. If I deselect everything at > install time (CentOS 5.0 - just for testing) it still requires 524Mb. Is > there any way of doing an even smaller install? >You might consider one of those fine super-lightweight distributions like Slitaz or Tiny Core, both excellent. Cheers, Niki
Stephen Harris a ?crit :> I have a 500Mb ATA Flash drive in my machine. If I deselect everything at > install time (CentOS 5.0 - just for testing)With CentOS 5.5, select [*] Customize Package Selection, and then in the following screen, deselect everything, even [*] Base. You still get a coherent system. Cheers, Niki