A possible minimal install

TMD3 · n00b Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 5

I have been messing around with Gentoo since around 1.0_rc11. One thing I have noticed is that the base system seems to be getting bigger and bigger. Is there a way to just install what is truly needed alla Debian base install or Core linux which looks promising but alot of work? I was wondering if I commented out all the USE variables and make defaults would do the trick. Most of the stuff I have no idea what each package is doing for me exactly. Seems like a lot of fluff but I dont know much about. I would like to know if this would work or there was some other option that I am missing in the install docs. I wouldnt think there should be more than 15 or so packages that would need to be emerged after the bootstrap. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks.

ashkar · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 48

i'm not sure if there is gentoo specific documentation about this, but a good place to look would be [url=linuxfromscratch.idge.net/view/4.0/]here[/url]. the package selection is very similar to gentoo's, and there is good documentation for each package concerning their use and dependencies. giving the lfs book a good once over would probably be a great start.