Hi Tim, Thanks for your details response and I will really do a lot of reading on OI so that I can get a better feel for the system as a whole and then be able to phrase my questions a bit more appropriately,ok.
Regarding what I an after is not minimizing the installed system, but a very minimized LiveCD like what is now used but without all of the additional application packages. I am mostly interested in having a LiveCD with GUI and VirtualBox as well as some of the general system tools like in the current LiveCD but without many of the additional applications. One thought was to have the LiveCD small enough that it could easily be used on iPXE booting and have packages selected at install time that would be downloaded as needed when the installer is run. More on this later, though. The best thing that I can do now is to install it, and then try to compile up the basic LiveCD and go from there as a good starting place. Cheers and Thanks again. Lonnie On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 4:05 PM Tim Mooney <[email protected]> wrote: > In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building OpenIndiana from > sources,...: > > > Thanks again Tim, and sorry about the name. Not sure why I was not > > correctly typing Hipster. Sorry about that, to be sure. > > No worries, I was amused by it and I doubt anyone else was bothered. > > > I may also fire OI up in a Virtualbox on my Ubuntu 18.04 system and try > to > > build the ISO from there. I want to see what takes up so much space on > the > > current Hipster ISO but think that it is probably the local repo that > holds > > a lot of the packages to be installed when needed. > > I'm still a little unclear on what your goal is. Do you want to minimize > the size of the ISO, or do you want to minimize the size of the installed > system image? Those aren't the same thing, though they are often > related. > > > Anyway, I thank you for your input and information as I get started here. > > I think that OpenIndiana holds a lot of potential for what I would like > to > > do (mostly experimenting with some ideas on LiveCD sizes) towards seeing > > what might be an ultra small OI with GUI LiveCD instance once I pull out > a > > number of applications. Think bare minimal install. > > As I said in my initial response, if you want both "GUI" and "minimal", > then > to begin minimizing you're going to have to rebuild some packages with > optional stuff left out. You won't be able to take existing packages and > just leave out some of their dependencies. You're going to find that > pulling in even a few GUI components is going to drag in a lot of stuff > the GUI apps were built to require. > > In addition, if you haven't read about consolidations yet, you should do > some reading about how OI uses consolidations. They are essentially > meta-packages that "lock" a set of packages together. I (or others) > can explain further when you get to them, if you have questions. > > Also, I gave someone else this same advice recently, but if your interest > is minimization of the final install image, you may want to search the > archives for a post by Peter Tribble on that same topic. He did a talk > about system minimization for the distro he maintains (Tribblix), and > there may be useful stuff there for you. > > >Would like to see if > > that part could be made to be 200 MB or less and pull things from a > network > > repo on install, but we will see how that comes out. > > You mean like how you can boot RHEL (or CentOS, or ...) off a 600 MB > boot.iso but then install thousands of packages from an NFS or http/https > repo? The boot iso is small, but the installed system could be quite > large. Is that what you're after? > > Tim > -- > Tim Mooney [email protected] > Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) > Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) > North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
