Hello,
we want to distribute our company software as virtual appliances (VMWARE) on Centos5 . My question is, which way i will achieve really minimum install (with yum). So far, i have during install unchecked all packages , then customized groups and removed everything including base system. As a result my CentOS install was 800MB , which is still to much for us. Value around 300 - 400 MB is OK.
Thanks!
D.
David Hláčik wrote:
My question is, which way i will achieve really minimum install (with yum). So far, i have during install unchecked all packages , then customized groups and removed everything including base system. As a result my CentOS install was 800MB , which is still to much for us. Value around 300 - 400 MB is OK.
do a bunch of 'yum erase' runs postinstall to remove whatever you dont need ?
Use a kickstart-file that has a "nobase" statement..
And have a look at CLIP (http://oss.tresys.com/projects/clip/wiki/WikiStart) for a truly minimal kickstart (and a lot of other security related stuff, if you're interested)..
Cheers,
Bart
----- Original Message ----- From: "Karanbir Singh" mail-lists@karan.org To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:17:28 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: [CentOS] truly minimal install
David Hláčik wrote:
My question is, which way i will achieve really minimum install (with yum). So far, i have during install unchecked all packages , then customized groups and removed everything including base system. As a result my CentOS install was 800MB , which is still to much for us. Value around 300 - 400 MB is OK.
do a bunch of 'yum erase' runs postinstall to remove whatever you dont need ?
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Karanbir Singh wrote: | David Hláčik wrote: |> My question is, which way i will achieve really minimum install (with yum). |> So far, i have during install unchecked all packages , then customized |> groups and removed everything including base system. |> As a result my CentOS install was 800MB , which is still to much for us. |> Value around 300 - 400 MB is OK. | | do a bunch of 'yum erase' runs postinstall to remove whatever you dont | need ? | If you can generate a list of packages you don't need, you can prevent them from being installed in kickstart by listing them with a -. ie:
%packages ... - -evolution
I found a vmware image that someone else produced. It's centos 5.1, but perhaps you could tweak that image to meet your needs.
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