For Fedora 33

This is how to do a minimal installation of Fedora.

Obviously Fedora is not the best distro to do a minimal install. However, it can be done.

1. Grab the Network Installer ISO from https://alt.fedoraproject.org/
2. Boot the CD, choose “Install Fedora 33”
3. Choose your language, click continue
4. Choose “Installation Destination”, choose “Storage Configuration” → “Custom”, click “Done”
5. Create partitions as you wish
6. Back in the Installation summary choose “Software selection”
7. choose “Fedora Custom Operating System” (Note: this is even smaller than the “Minimal Installation” option)
8. Click “Done”, then “Begin Installation”
9. Create a root password and a user
10. reboot

After installaton login as root and execute the following script

#!/bin/sh
 
systemctl disable dbus-broker
systemctl disable systemd-resolved
systemctl disable systemd-homed
systemctl disable systemd-userdbd
dnf -y remove firewalld
dnf -y remove sssd-*
dnf -y remove audit
dnf -y remove NetworkManager
 
E=`grep ^e /proc/net/dev|cut -d: -f1`
 
cat <<EOF >/etc/systemd/network/wired.network
[Match]
Name=$E
 
[Network]
DHCP=yes
EOF
 
systemctl enable systemd-networkd
rm -f /etc/resolv.conf
 
# a privacy respecting nameserver from german non-profit association digitalcourage 
echo "nameserver 46.182.19.48" >/etc/resolv.conf

Then reboot. Congratulation, you have now the smallest Fedora system possible.

In this example we use bspwm. Unfortunately Xorg won't work without dbus, so we have to re-enable dbus-broker.

As user execute the following script

#!/bin/sh
 
sudo dnf -y install bspwm sxhkd
sudo dnf -y install xterm
sudo dnf -y install xorg-x11-server-Xorg
sudo dnf -y install xorg-x11-xinit
sudo dnf -y install xorg-x11-drv-*
sudo dnf -y install mesa-dri-drivers
sudo dnf -y install rofi
 
install -Dm644 /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/sxhkdrc ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc
install -Dm755 /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/bspwmrc ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc
 
sed -ie s/dmenu_run/'rofi -show run'/g  ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc
sed -ie s/urxvt/xterm/g  ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc
 
sudo systemctl enable dbus-broker
 
echo "exec bspwm" >~/.xinitrc

Then reboot, login as user and execute startx. Once X has launched press Super (or Windows key) + Return to launch xterm