Eric Warnke wrote:
All this talk and not much action on the reduction in CD
count.
I did some poking and proding of FC3 to see what we could get
it down to. I discovered that base had a bad dependancy
issue that cuased much more to be pulled into a base install
than was necessary becase kdebindings was claiming ownership
of /usr/lib/python2.3. Once I started using base+updates
everything sorted itself out nicely.
Basicly I require 115mb of RPM's ( decompressed ~250mb in
about 45 seconds ) in order to bootstrap a system up to the
point where yum becomes usable. I then copy resolv.conf and
chroot into the system. I can then run yum install [package]
without problem. It turned out to be much easier than I
expected and I'm thinking of continuing to use this process
moving forward to build a simple yum based net install system
in house. I figure I can modify the rescue cd to accomplish
this task, possibly having enough room to also add a basic
gnome install.
I think some of the scripts were failing because of some
undeclared dependancies on files that need to be created by
an installer, specifically /etc/fstab, so if someone has
documentation on bootstrapping a Fedora based system that
would be helpful.
I made an installable fc3 version down to 95 megs of RPMs for a
total ISO size of 288M (*.img are bigger than needed and could
be reduced too).
Peek here:
ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/contrib/minifc3/
-Jeff