On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Chris Andrewskhris4@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Everyone,

I was wondering does anyone know how I can slim down Centos install, what I mean by slim down is whenever I install Centos with nothing but xen. I have all type stuff that is not needed like bluetooth and etc. This is a server, so I know that bluetooth is not need but I don't have any other menus to remove software when install from cd. So what would be the best way to slim this server down to only need the bare to run xen?

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From: Chris Andrews khris4@gmail.com

I was wondering does anyone know how I can slim down Centos install, what I mean by slim down is whenever I install Centos with nothing but xen. I have all type stuff that is not needed like bluetooth and etc. This is a server, so I know that bluetooth is not need but I don't have any other menus to remove software when install from cd. So what would be the best way to slim this server down to only need the bare to run xen?

I think you will have to use a kickstart file..

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-howus...

See the 'services' and '%packages' sections of the file... Example:

services --enabled=acpid,anacron,auditd,cpuspeed,crond,gpm,haldaemon,irqbalance, kudzu,lm_sensors,messagebus,microcode_ctl,netfs,network,ntpd,portmap,readahead_e arly,sendmail,smartd,sshd,syslog,sysstat,xinetd --disabled=cups,apmd,atd,autofs, avahi-daemon,bluetooth,firstboot,hidd,ip6tables,isdn,mcstrans,pcscd,restorecond, xfs,yum-updatesd

And:

%packages @base yum-fastestmirror yum-priorities yum-utils ...

If you remove @base, you will have to list all the mandatory packages...

JD