Minimum package for iptable

[samancse]

I want tp install Fedora 7 with minimum packages to run iptable.
I tried text mode and unselected all packaes and still it is about 1GB big but in Fedora documentation said that minimum installation need less than 400MB how can i make it about 400mb.

[stevea]

Wow that's very interesting, I've never tried that.

When you installed did you hunt through each of the package groups and un-chech the group, or did you just de-select the 'server, development, ...' major headings ?

[stevea]

I just installed f7 under a qemu virtualization. I used the gui installer and de-selected every package group except I left dhcp-client under base packages/base. Also the vim editor.

The installed size of the root fs is still 639MB (using 'df --si'). That's still a fair but bigger than 400MB.

Removing selinux-policy & selinux-policy-targeted got it down to 534MB ! That's a lot better.

[stevea]

Well I'm pretty shocked at what got included . /usr is 486MB. The /usr is 486MB, and /usr/share is 286MB.

/usr/share/icons is 66MB on this non-graphical install !

The dependencies loops are just amazing (and a litle dumb I think). grub requires redhat-artwork which forces inclusion of gtk2 and half a dozen X11 libraries !!!



33MB in /usr/share/doc and 20MB in /usr/share/man could be safely deleted on a standalone system (but I think just a few packages used to use their /usr/share/doc files for functionality ??)

Very very weird - obviously fedora isn't ideal when size matters.

[samancse]

yes i did install fedora with even 1 packege (optenal packages)
I was looking at packages it intalling so many packages which look like they are useless for networking and iptable but about 300 i guess i need SeLinux for security reason. This interesting that I couldnt find any premade vm.
do you know how can i get information about packeges and dependencies cause i thing i have to uninstall all use less packages manually by rpm command?

[nick.stumpos]

you may want to reconsider your choice of os here for your needs why not use dsl or lfs. is their a particular reason you need fedora?

[samancse]

you may want to reconsider your choice of os here for your needs why not use dsl or lfs. is their a particular reason you need fedora?

My project habeen defined in fedora. thats why I am looking for minimized fedora touse it az "Software Firewall"