On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Matt Lawrence wrote:
On 12/5/05, rado rado@rivers-bend.com wrote:
The Soekris net4801 is a really nifty device for embedded use, but it can be a pain to do thsi sort of debugging on since it only has a serial port for a console.
After reading the tiny-centos web page, I'm trying to build a truly minimal installation. I have deselcted almost every default package
Yes, I'm doing strange and terrible things to anaconda. I'm a geek.
smile -- Didn't I help you in the IRC channel a while back?
As the author of that 'tiny-centos' page, and a long time anaconda and kickstart hacker, the thought comes to mind;
The _reason_ I did my reduction work in the %post stanza, was that mucking with ks/anaconda during proof of concept/ development is too much buck for not enough bang; reverse it to a high bang/buck ratio using %post to get a clean packagelist, and _then_ muck with ks/anaconda.
Better still, then write a minimal custom fdisk/mkfs/busybox, and rsync/rpm/yum tool and grub-install tool, a la cAos' 'cinch' installer, and cut even more cruft away for embedded work.
-- Russ Herrold