Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:11 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: My solution to installs for little machines is a box I got from Newegg, has a USB connector and PATA inside for old drives (SATA available as well), and I install on a real computer with lots of resources, even if I'm running on

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:05:18PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:28:55AM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:22 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system? What do you mean by

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-06 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:11 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: My solution to installs for little machines is a box I got from Newegg, has a USB connector and PATA inside for old drives (SATA available as well), and I install on a real computer with lots of resources, even if I'm running on next to

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:28:55AM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:22 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system? What do you mean by minimal? If you mean just the base system kernel, libraries, and yum and its

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:28:55AM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:22 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system? What do you mean by minimal? If you mean just the base system kernel, libraries, and

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andre Robatino wrote: Chris Smart wrote: Also explains why the PPC machine did a text only install - it couldn't start the graphical installer. The minimum RAM for a GUI install was increased from 192 MB to 384 MB for F12. My solution to installs for little machines is a box I got from

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-04 22:48:45, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/5 Andre Robatino an...@bwh.harvard.edu: The minimum RAM for a GUI install was increased from 192 MB to 384 MB for F12. http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2009-July/ msg00146.html Oh yes.. I have no idea how much ram

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/6 Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com: The output of `free` will tell you. Yep, thanks :-) -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/6 Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com: You need to do this with the Customize selection option, rather than simply turning off the small number of extra capabilities shown on the general users screen.  If you leave something selected behind the scenes, its dependencies will bring in a

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:22 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system? What do you mean by minimal? I assume it's by installing via the DVD and un-ticking package groups, leaving just the base apps, but perhaps more seasoned Fedora users have a

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com: What do you mean by minimal? A basic command line system to use as a base to then make the system whatever I like, with only the apps I want. A base install could be a server, or turned into a desktop with a basic graphical interface without

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Jan 5, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Chris Smart wrote: [...] Ubuntu provides an Install a command-line system mode on the alternate installation media. Does Fedora have something similar? I didn't see any Anaconda options to do it. [...] I was wondering that, myself, but I think when I installed

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 01/04/2010 04:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The LiveCD version basic but functional. The LiveCD is fairly basic, yes, but it still installs ~1.5G if I remember correctly. It has a lot of packages that are not always necessary, like gimp and multimedia packages. I wanted to set up a

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread suvayu ali
2010/1/4 Konstantin Svist fry@gmail.com: On 01/04/2010 04:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The LiveCD version basic but functional. The LiveCD is fairly basic, yes, but it still installs ~1.5G if I remember correctly. It has a lot of packages that are not always necessary, like gimp

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Julian Aloofi
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 09:22 +1100 schrieb Chris Smart: Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system? I assume it's by installing via the DVD and un-ticking package groups, leaving just the base apps, but perhaps more seasoned Fedora users have a better suggestion? The

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Andre Robatino
If you do a text-based install (add text to the installer's kernel options, or automatic if you have less than the minimum RAM for a GUI install), you'll get an extremely stripped-down installation (less than 200 packages for F11) whether you want it or not - the text-based installer doesn't offer

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Andre Robatino an...@bwh.harvard.edu: If you do a text-based install (add text to the installer's kernel options, or automatic if you have less than the minimum RAM for a GUI install), you'll get an extremely stripped-down installation (less than 200 packages for F11) whether you want

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com: 2010/1/5 Andre Robatino an...@bwh.harvard.edu: If you do a text-based install (add text to the installer's kernel options, or automatic if you have less than the minimum RAM for a GUI install), you'll get an extremely stripped-down installation

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread suvayu ali
2010/1/4 Andre Robatino an...@bwh.harvard.edu: If you do a text-based install (add text to the installer's kernel options, or automatic if you have less than the minimum RAM for a GUI install), you'll get an extremely stripped-down installation (less than 200 packages for F11) whether you want

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com: If you want customised partitioning scheme then text based install is not a good idea. I still think trying out the netinstall image would be the best bet for the OP. I tested this, but the netinstaller still defaults to installing a full

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Andre Robatino
Chris Smart wrote: Also explains why the PPC machine did a text only install - it couldn't start the graphical installer. The minimum RAM for a GUI install was increased from 192 MB to 384 MB for F12. http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2009-July/msg00146.html signature.asc

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Julian Aloofi julian.fedorali...@googlemail.com: An easy way to get a minimal system would be to untick *all* groups (yes, all, even the Base group) in the DVD image. This will result in a very basic system, which still will be bootable. Thank you, this also works (and installs the

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Andre Robatino an...@bwh.harvard.edu: The minimum RAM for a GUI install was increased from 192 MB to 384 MB for F12. http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2009-July/msg00146.html Oh yes.. I have no idea how much ram that iMac thing has. Thanks, -c -- fedora-list

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Monday 04 January 2010 07:24 PM, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/5 suvayu alifatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com: If you want customised partitioning scheme then text based install is not a good idea. I still think trying out the netinstall image would be the best bet for the OP. I tested this, but

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com: I just tried this myself on a VM, all you need to do is uncheck those package groups. Yep, agreed. Thanks. -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: