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SystemParadox

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From: Tavistock (Devon) and Bristol

Registered: 2006-06-09

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Bare minimum packages needed to boot?

Hello. What are the bare minimum packages I need to install to have a system which boots and can install other packages for itself later?

Thanks
Simon

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Bare minimum packages needed to boot?

Basically, everything in the "base" group.  You could probably remove more if you really know what you are doing...

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k.mandla

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From: Japan

Registered: 2006-05-16

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Re: Bare minimum packages needed to boot?

Same suggestion, although I take out things like wireless-related packages if I use a wired connection, or pcmcia stuff if it's a desktop, and so forth.

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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Re: Bare minimum packages needed to boot?

If you don't plan on using certain filesystems other than ext2 and ext3, then you can get rid of the xfs/jfs/reiser related packages.

There are quite a few others I don't install (off the top of my head: encryption ones, RAID, mailx)

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