reposting of email Re: [Rule-list] Suggestions for having a small install.

[Eugene Wong]

Hi.

I'm just reposting this because Marco mentioned something about the email 
not working and holding on to our email for a few days. I haven't received 
any replies yet, so...


Sincerely, and with thanks,
Eugene T.S. Wong




>From: "Eugene Wong" <disposable_eugene at hotmail.com>
>
>Hi all.
>
>Ultimately, it will be hard for RULE to have a small default install, 
>because everybody has different needs and definitions of "small".
>
>I'd like to suggest the following:
>
>1.) We make a script that has lots of comments in it, that will go 
>throughout the hard drive and delete unwanted files, and strip debugging 
>code. We can make it really generic, and have many commented out options. 
>On my Gentoo system, I managed to free up approx. 100MB because of language 
>files that I didn't need, and debugging code. It would be good to get some 
>help on deleting any l10n and i18n files that I don't need. We could 
>encourage people to save these scripts on a floppy or somewhere on the 
>Internet, so that they could do this for every install and upgrade. The 
>good thing is that this script will probably only need to be customized 
>once.
>
>2.) Another idea is to make Slinky just a program that parses KickStart 
>files; no prompting; no interaction. We could give out sample KickStart 
>files and encourage them to customize the samples. As it is, RH already has 
>samples and already has documentation. We only need an install program that 
>will use these scripts. If we made Slinky do this, then we should probably 
>try and make it work with ftp and other installation methods [according to 
>RH6.0, we could only use CDROM & NFS].
>
>Thoughts?
>
>
>Sincerely, and with thanks,
>Eugene T.S. Wong

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