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I have been surfing around a bit for finding a minimal install of slackware. I have compared the sources which I have found.

My intention was to have a fast slack with nothing missing and nothing superfluous.

I'd like to have:
- X (fluxbox)
- a webbrowser
- developping tools for compiling packages
I do NOT like to have:
- gnome, kde...
- 3 or 4 different webbrowser, text-editors...

this was what I came out:

a/ aaa_base-9.1.0-noarch-1
a/ acpid-1.0.2-i486-1
a/ bash-2.05b-i486-3
a/ bin-8.5.0-i386-1
a/ bzip2-1.0.2-i386-4
a/ coreutils-5.0-i486-4
a/ cxxlibs-5.1.0-i486-1
a/ dcron-2.3.3-i386-4
a/ devfsd-1.3.25-i386-2
a/ devs-2.3.1-noarch-18
a/ e2fsprogs-1.34-i486-1
a/ elflibs-9.1.0-i486-2
a/ elvis-2.1_4-i386-1
a/ etc-5.1-noarch-5
a/ findutils-4.1.7-i386-1
a/ floppy-5.4-i386-3
a/ gawk-3.1.3-i486-1
a/ gettext-tools-0.14.1-i486-2
a/ glibc-solibs-2.3.2-i486-1
a/ glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.2-noarch-1
a/ gmp-4.1.2-i486-2
a/ grep-2.5-i386-2
a/ gzip-1.3.3-i386-2
a/ hdparm-5.3-i386-1
a/ hotplug-2003_08_05-noarch-3
a/ infozip-5.50-i486-2
a/ kbd-1.08-i386-2
a/ kernel-ide-2.4.22-i486-2
a/ kernel-modules-2.4.22-i486-2
a/ less-381-i386-1
a/ logrotate-3.6.8-i486-1
a/ module-init-tools-0.9.14-i486-2
a/ openssl-solibs-0.9.7b-i486-2
a/ pkgtools-9.1.0-i486-4
a/ procps-2.0.16-i486-2
a/ reiserfsprogs-3.6.11-i486-1
a/ sed-3.02-i486-1
a/ shadow-4.0.3-i486-8
a/ sysklogd-1.4.1-i486-8
a/ syslinux-2.06-i386-1
a/ sysvinit-2.84-i486-36
a/ tar-1.13.25-i386-1
a/ umsdos-progs-1.13-i386-1
a/ usbutils-0.11-i386-1
a/ util-linux-2.12-i486-1
ap/ alsa-utils-0.9.6-i486-1
ap/ diffutils-2.8.1-i386-1
ap/ groff-1.17.2-i386-3
ap/ man-1.5l-i386-1
ap/ man-pages-1.60-noarch-1
ap/ sudo-1.6.6-i386-1
ap/ texinfo-4.5-i386-1
ap/ vim-6.2-i486-1
d/ autoconf-2.57-noarch-1
d/ autofs-3.1.7-i386-1
d/ automake-1.7.7-noarch-1
d/ bin86-0.16.11-i386-1
d/ binutils-2.14.90.0.6-i486-1
d/ bison-1.35-i386-1
d/ byacc-1.9-i386-1
d/ ccache-2.2-i386-1
d/ flex-2.5.4a-i486-2
d/ gcc-3.2.3-i486-2
d/ gcc-g++-3.2.3-i486-1
d/ gdb-5.3-i386-1
d/ kernel-headers-2.4.22-i386-1
d/ libtool-1.4.3-i486-2
d/ m4-1.4-i386-2
d/ make-3.80-i386-1
d/ pkgconfig-0.15.0-i486-1
l/ alsa-driver-0.9.6-i486-3
l/ alsa-lib-0.9.6-i486-1
l/ alsa-oss-0.9.6-i486-1
l/ 1.4.0-i486-1
l/ db1-1.85-i386-1
l/ db2-2.4.14-i386-1
l/ db3-3.3.11-i386-3
l/ expat-1.95.6-i486-2
l/ gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-i486-1
l/ glib-1.2.10-i386-2
l/ glib2-2.2.3-i486-1
l/ glibc-2.3.2-i486-1
l/ gnet-2.0.4-i486-1
l/ gtk+-1.2.10-i386-3
l/ gtk+2-2.2.4-i486-1
l/ imlib-1.9.14-i486-2
l/ lesstif-0.93.91-i486-1
l/ libtermcap-1.2.3-i486-6
l/ libusb-0.1.7-i386-1
l/ libxml2-2.5.11-i486-2
l/ libxslt-1.0.33-i486-1
l/ ncurses-5.3-i386-1
l/ orbit-0.5.17-i386-1
l/ pango-1.2.5-i486-1
l/ popt-1.7-i386-1
l/ readline-4.3-i486-3
l/ slang-1.4.9-i486-1
l/ t1lib-1.3.1-i386-2
l/ utempter-0.5.2-i486-2
l/ zlib-1.1.4-i386-3
n/ autofs-3.1.7-i386-1
n/ dhcp-3.0pl2-i386-1
n/ dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i386-1
n/ inetd-1.79s-i486-3
n/ nc-1.10-i386-1
n/ pidentd-3.0.16-i386-1
n/ wget-1.8.2-i386-2
x/ ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-noarch-2
x/ xfree86-4.3.0-i486-5
x/ xfree86-devel-4.3.0-i486-3
x/ xfree86-fonts-misc-4.3.0-noarch-2
x/ xfree86-fonts-scale-4.3.0-noarch-2
xap/ fluxbox-0.1.14-i386-1
xap/ mozilla-1.4-i486-3
xap/ rxvt-2.7.10-i486-1

Which packages can I also leave out? Any more suggestions or remarks.

gnashley

that's not a bad list there... See my HOWTO to see how much can be left out.
http://home.earthlink.net/~gnashley/...ix8_1howto.htm
I have a great 140-160MB install but without the /d packages.
Actually I have a list for a 20MB Slackware install! You can't do much with it, but it does illustrate what packages are absolutely essential.

SVN

I have compared the following sources:

http://home.earthlink.net/~gnashley/...ix8_1howto.htm
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...l&pagenumber=2
the packages list of zipslack
a few other sources on the net which I don't find back

Cerbere

For the love of God, use the search function.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ckware+install

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ckware+install (scroll down on this one)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ckware+install

This question keeps coming back again and again. Why not keep it in one thread?

BTW you might take a look at Linux From Scratch. It's a great step by step manual for compiling a complete distro from source code. Once you've gone through it, you'll have a much better understanding of what all the different packages do.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere