On Thursday 04 December 2003 14:21, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Mako Gabor (makgab@freemail.hu) said:
If I would like to create a firewall/gateway with RedHat/Fedora then I must install the 900MB. It is unnecessary!
I could have sworn minimal was somewhere between 450 and 500MB. I'll have to re-check that.
Minimum is around 510MB although you need at least a 600MB to 650MB partition to actually do the install.
From time to time, a minimal install has pulled in some extra stuff (like
devel packages and there are some packages that I see little need for in a minimal system (such as aspell/aspell-en). However, I sense that there is little insentive for the Red Hat folks to spend any time really trimming out these extras. Furthermore, I doubt that it could be made significantly smaller.