Matt Rose wrote: >>>>> But iptables, ntpd, sshd are however things I considere part of the core >>>>> installation. >>> Let us just not forget ip6tables ;-) >> Plus stuff like ftp(??), wget and screen if there's room. > This is the %packages section from a kickstart file I use for booting I dont think the resulting install, even after including everything that Ned + Hugo + dag have mentioned would result in something remotely callable 'Server CD'. does this mean that while ServerCD has traction, the real problem being solved is something else ? A minimal install can be done with about 160 rpms, getting a CD to do just that is not that hard. Is that whats really needed in this case ? Would people expect it to support all the regular install mechanism's too ? ( cd, usb, pxe, xen, etc ??) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq