First, on minimal RH installs:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:35:09AM -0700, Rick Forrister wrote:
> > Laurent Brissonnet wrote:
> > > It is said on redhat web site, that the minimal space to install redhat
> > > is 350 MB.
> > > And indeed, when we follow the classical install we reach this figure.
> > >
> > > Is there a minimal redhat package list to install only the minimum with
> > > a XF86Free server ?
<snip>
> Just yesterday I installed a minimal system I needed to build a custom RH
> installation CD. I used RH 7.2, and it went in under 300 Mb. No X though.
> Only unnecessary packages were openssh and anaconda.
>
Um, I think you overloaded. You can get a Linux installation significantly
smaller. My question to Rick is, what did you *need* for the custom install?
If you want X, you should consider what else you need: do you need image
manipulation (Image Magick and the Gimp are *big*)? Do you need emacs,
or just vi (emacs, as of 'bout a year and a half ago, was 26M, all by its
lonesome). How many browsers do you need? Last time I looked, Netscape was
about 20+M. Do you need that, *and* Mozilla, *and* whatever? Do you *really*
need *both* KDE *and* Gnome, or will one of 'em do you?
Do the custom install, and pick and choose specific packages.
Then, on ext2 vs. ext3:
When I upgraded my system, I upgraded from ext2 to ext3. All automated, no
problems, didn't take that long, and works great.
mark
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