On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:53:29 -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > 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? > [...] > > >> 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. > > > > 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. > > Hmmm .... I *think* I tried that ... > > I tried so many things that I've not only forgotten why I gave > upon which, but even what all I tried. Otoh, I was wondering last night > whether I ought to try it again ... > > > > 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. > > IOW, the feature would be welcome, if it were to (re)appear, in > more places than just among early adopters of tiny machines. > > I remember I tried EeeDora first of all; the deviser of it had > obviously put a lot of work into it, and I've been seeing more than I > want of how much that really was. > > I'm pretty sure the trouble there, once I got the right version, > was that his minimum wasn't my minimum. It seems several of the > minimalist distros -- Knoppix, DSL, and several others -- still use a > kernel that's not compatible with the hardware in the EeePC. But EeeDora > was made from F8. > > At this point, I'm down to where I can hardly remove half a dozen > apps without getting a dependency requirement I'm not willing to live > with. Pretty soon I'll have to start not only removing one at a time, but > rebooting every time. > > Stay tuned. > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Therein lies the rub: Their minimum is not your minimum. Use pungi and create your own distribution.
