03-Dec-2003 fedora-devel-list-request@redhat.com:
From: M A Young m.a.young@durham.ac.uk The actually minimal install using the standard installer is about 510Mb, which you get by deselecting all the optional packages at the right point, though you need over 600Mb of diskspace to actually install this.
The absolute minimum presumably consists of a handful of key packages (such as kernel, glibc, initscripts) plus any dependent packages, which prbably comes to 2-300 Mb, though this may be too minimal to do anything with.
If I would like to create a firewall/gateway with RedHat/Fedora then I must install the 900MB. It is unnecessary! Many times the minimal install is necessary with this!
Bye! Gabor