From: "Eugene Wong" <address@hidden>
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