On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 18:08 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Miller > <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 11:29:37AM -0000, Fa Be wrote: > > > It will be very beneficial for people if the Fedora project > > > provides > > > the Minimal CD images of Fedora. It can attract more users to > > > Fedora > > > and is very useful for people who have the internt with > > > low-bandwidth. Currently I use Debian due to the lack of Minimal > > > CD > > > of Fedora. > > > > But then you need to add more stuff later, right? Isn't the network > > install + downloading specifically what you want a better option > > anyway? > > I agree that it can be very difficult to define "what you need to add > later". Gnome or even a compiler are undesirable on a stripped down > minimal fileserver with Samba capability. Spamassassin may be useful > on a mail server, but is pointless on anything else. Even the > netinstall ISO images are burdened by the frankly unnecessary X based > graphical installer. Anaconda didn't, and shouldn't, need graphical > displays to operate, and that has contributed to a "netinstall.iso" > of > nearly 500 MB for Fedora 25. Anaconda itself can work just fine without any GUI stuff being installed (GTK/X/etc.) - providing the text interface + kickstart installation support. That would make the image quite a bit smaller.
It's just that AFAIK no such (text-only) Fedora installation image is actually being created at the moment. > There was a decision made to make the > installer itself much more graphically intense and to invent a new > "spoke and hub" based installation workflow. Unfortunately, if your > initial setup now requires a 500 MB download to get the bootstrap ISO > image with all the graphical components to operate at all, it > convinces me that making the installers so graphical was actually a > hindrance to developers. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
