On Monday 03 March 2008 3:44:54 pm Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: > Didn't anaconda use to include an option to do a minimum install? > > Iirc that there was such a thing, I'm sure there were reasons for > dropping it. (I can imagine one : my minimum may not be your minimum.) > > However, with half a dozen variations on the sub-notebook > computer coming on the market, there is bound to be an increased need. > > Case in point : I have F8 installed, booting,, and connecting on > an EeePC with a 4 GB hard drive -- using, admittedly, install to an 8 GB > thumbstick, helped along by a 4 GB SD memory card. > > However, I'm going to have to do a *lot* of pruning to get it > down to something usable -- an inordinately tedious job, even with pirut. > I keep hitting dependency hells, and sometimes consequences that would > remove something I need to keep -- such as saving my gnome-session from > login to login. > > Wouldn't it be easier, for those who try to do the like, to start > from bones as bare as even the experts could get them, and add in > necessities -- rather than the way it is now? > > I don't really need to know all that gnome-session depends on, or > all that depends on it. I just need to know how much space it will cost > to add it and its dependencies if I *don't* have it, and so on for other > apps, till I can tell whether I'll be able to run Fedora at all on a > given new tiny machine. > > I don't know whether the feature is feasible, much less why or > why not; but I'd sure be glad of *some* easier way. > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Evangelist > Fedora 8; Ubuntu 7.10; CentOS 5.1; Alpine 1.0, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6 > Remember I know little (precious little!) of what I am talking about. Beartooth: How about starting with one of the live CDs? Less to trim, easier to update and you can then add various bits and pieces to fit within your space budget. I did that last week using the Live KDE version of F8, and it went very well. I should point out that space isn't a problem here -- I've got a 320 GB hard drive and had plenty of space for Fedora. I was just trying to cut down all of the time spent installing, upgrading and then maintaining a bunch of stuff that I don't need and don't use. -- cmg
