On Thursday 18 January 2007 02:39, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > I heard from several sides that the base system of openSUSE 10.2 is a > bit large - and agree and would like to discuss with you what we can > do. > > I thought about the following: > * make the existing base system pattern really minimal > * add another conveninience pattern that has all the extra stuff we > currently have in the base system - and require this for all other > patterns. > > For a really minimal base system we have to define what we need first. <snip> > Andreas
Great ideas and yes I think it needs to be done. I bet the first issues to resolve will be package selection and hardware support so I then think what is the size of the media this will reside on? Could this base pattern also be a 'single-CD' install? Should it be a stand alone bootable ISO file? If so then what should the target media size be for the base or bare minimum pattern? 32MB to 1GB USB stick or 700MB CD, 4G DVD, 9GB DVD? Could this be the Damn Small openSUSE Linux equivalent at less than ~50MB? Could this be a Rescue System too? Would it be able to NFS/FTP/HTTP to openSUSE repositories for the rest of the patterns? Could this base pattern include enough to be the base for Live CD/DVD/USBstick openSUSE? Stan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
