On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
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Hi Scott,
I didn't know about the minimal CD until now.
And it's not really about "trimming a few extra megs", but rather about removing, and disabling services which users generally won't use but gets installed and often cause security issues down the road cause it was never disabled
My ALI scripts should be able to handle setting up which services are running from bootup. That's what I wrote them for ;)
http://www.karsites.net/centos/anyuser/auto-linux-installer.php
Once those scripts have been setup and configured for a particular machine, I can do a minimal fresh kickstart installation in 20-30 minutes. The rest can be downloaded and installed overnight while I'm sleeping :)
Also you can use a USB flash drive for storing your kickstart file. Please see my Fedora guide 'Putting a kickstart file onto USB flash drive' here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=235489
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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