On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Thomas Ribbrock wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:06:59AM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote:
> [...]
> > First and foremost, is there a decent way to 'strip' RedHat
> > down to the bare minimum?
> [...]
>
> I made the best experiences (RHL 5.2/RHL 6.2) with using the custom install
> mode, deselecting *all* packages (that will leave a bare bone system to
> install), install the system, boot it and then manually install all RPMs I'm
> missing. That way, I was indeed able to get RHL 6.2 down to the 150MB mark,
> IIRC.
>
> HTH,
>
> Thomas
>
If you use the --excludedocs option, or delete the subdirectories of
/usr/doc, you can cut down a lot more. You can get it under 100M.
Mikkel
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