<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 March 2014 10:32, Karanbir Singh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail-lists@karan.org" target="_blank">mail-lists@karan.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
<br>
Something that keeps coming up is how far can we minimalise an Instance<br>
/ Image / Installer before we cant call it CentOS anymore. In the past,<br>
what we have generally stuck with is:<br>
- CentOS Shipped kernel<br>
- Initscripts<br>
- functional yum<br>
- functional openssh-server<br>
- atleast all of @base<br>
<br>
however, in some cases, openssh-server might not be needed, and<br>
initscripts has a fairly long dep tree, similarly making yum work needs<br>
a few things. Can we get away with losing yum as an example and<br>
replacing it with a script that says 'need yum? I can download and<br>
install it for you' and have it hit <a href="http://mirror.centos.org" target="_blank">mirror.centos.org</a> for static yum and<br>
yum dep urls ?<br>
<br>
similarly, should nobase and nocore be acceptable ?<br>
<br>
the aim being to setup a base image, that is under 150mb to download and<br>
deploy.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The bare minimum I have had to help groups get down to is basically a kernel+busybox with scripts that they could install whatever they wanted from there. As I see busybox isn't installed by default anymore on Fedora I can see this was a lot longer in the past than I realized. If there is a 'newer' shinier replacement to busybox I don't know what that is but it may be more of the 'way' to go these days. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I would call that a nano install. It should give you just enough to get other stuff onto a box to make it usable if you have the time and love to write the scripts to do the stuff that would need to get yum and other stuff working. </div>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Stephen J Smoogen.<br><br></div>
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