Hi,friends.

I know that there's an actual question about Slackware minimal installation.

I've read a number of articles about it, one of most famous to my mind is here.

I have my own list of packages to install, to have a core system. And I'd like to share it with you. Maybe it will be useful for anybody.

http://blog.zantsev.com/post/9028233...minimal-system

Regards, Lexus45

I have installed in my VPS slackware 13 minimal. And i needed two days to make it work perfect. Minimal Slackware have about 300 MB and the full DVD has on install 5.7 GB with all you need I recomend using the 5.7 GB slackware if you want to start your services in the same day

yup, I also had about 300 MB of disk space used. But 5.7 GB is too much for a server use, to my mind

Slackware minimal installation is not just mini inst, but help me understand what packages in slackware system, thanks for your guide!

As I understand a minimal system it’s a collection of the packages allowing to run the machine. In the case of Slackware the minimal system would be the subset of A series. I never tested which packages are essential to run Slackware.

The other thing is a minimal system for concrete purposes. Here I’d like to present you my minimal system for Slackware-based jukebox playing MP3 files.

● A series – all packages except for:
kernel-huge-smp:ADD
kernel-modules-smp:ADD
cups:REC
kernel-generic:REC
kernel-generic-smp:REC

● AP series – six packages:
alsa-utils:REC
diffutils:REC
seejpeg:REC
mc:OPT
mpg321:OPT
sudo:OPT

● D series – one package:
perl:REC

● L series – fourteen packages:
alsa-lib:ADD
glibc:REC
libao:REC
libid3tag:REC
libjpeg:REC
libmad:REC
libogg:REC
libpng:REC
libtiff:REC
libvorbis:REC
ncurses:REC
svgalib:REC
zlib:REC
glibc-i18n:OPT

● N series – eight packages:
iptables:ADD
network-scripts:ADD
cyrus-sasl:REC
net-snmp:REC
portmap:REC
net-tools:OPT
nfs-utils:OPT
rsync:OPT

Additionally I installed moc (music on console) from SlackBuilds.org.

I use:
moc – to play music
seejpeg – to see the album covers
mc – to browse the collection
nfs – to upload the collection

For a VPS 5.7 GB is too much but i have installed in my HP on a 200 GB partition the full 5.7 GB slackware 13.1 and even installed from DVD i still had some problems to start mysql/httpd .
Anyway i search for a minimal slackware to install it instead of my 5.7 GB slackware (i know that i can make it minimal using advanced setup but i want it installed on remote servers and i cant download all the time 4GB of dvd iso.)
I have found slackware minimal that can be installed with openvz but i need an ISO file to burn it since i cant create my virtual machines with a tar.gz files (or i can ?).

I'm glad to announce a new "version" of 13.37 Slackware core system.

Of course picking up necessary packages and making new tagfiles is thousand times easier than developing the system, nevertheless I hope that my frugal routine work will be helpful to somebody.

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Thank you for your work.

could you try this mini-slack tags I enclose?
You'll be surprised you can run Slackware with so few things.

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Why do you think I'll be surprised? I know that Slackware can run with less packages that I picked. And my needs may differ from yours or someone elses's. It's just that components which I use and I shared the tagfiles, because they can be useful for somebody.

Anyway, thanks for your post

Lexsus45, what components do you use? Same question for nobodino.

Do server administration interfaces like webmin, phpMyadm require the Xlibraries? I have been googling this ques. without much success. I want to put (DHCP, Bind, for Ddns Server), Apache, MySQL, PhP, Perl, Python, mail server, firewall, AV in one box. Thanks