Minimal Install ISO's for 7?

[Monsta_AU]

Hi all;

I am very pleased to see that 7 has been released, and am busily downloadng now.

This release has me a little concerned however - my normal installation routine for servers is to use the minimal install ISO and then add what I require for that installation. It seems that we do not have a 'Minimal' ISO image for 7.

Are we being asked to run the NetInstall version instead? I'd prefer not to have to download the full ISO for a simple Minimal install.

[TrevorH]

The release announcement contained this text

Given the popularity of the minimal install ISO in CentOS-6, we are going to try and deliver a minimal install ISO for CentOS-7 as well. One key challenge here is that the installer image has grown to nearly 360MB, and getting enough content into a CD size image is proving hard.

[Monsta_AU]

Thanks for the reply Trevor. I skipped over that when reading the announcement.

As for the size of the install - I don't think many of us would care if it fits on a CD or not. I think we are looking for a minimal install without needing to download (or store) the full ISO.

I would be more than happy having a bash script included with the netinstall which we could run which then took the system up to an equivalent of the v6 minimal. Keeps everyone happy, and minimal work required.

[lightminer]

I have the same base case as Monsta_AU, which is simply that we use it a ton on network shares and the such, it is much easier to deal with compared to many GBs. So, from my perspective, it doesn't matter if it fits on a CD, as long as it is the true 'minimal' version of Centos as it was in 6, then all is great. 360 MB is no problem at all, doesn't matter one bit.