On 01/04/10 10:20, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > hello > > As asked by Karanbir, please find attached two kickstart files that I > use. One is used for servers and does an [almost] minimal install (with > support for ssh -Y); Hi, Your minimal install is interesting. What does the --excludedocs option to %packages do? I can't find it documented anywhere? My approach to a minimal package list has been to use --nobase, then install the @core group and then install only mandatory packages from the base group, which I determine dynamically with this (pre-install) script (I use cobbler): yum groupinfo base | perl -we 'my $in_mand = 0; while (<>) { $in_mand = 0 if /\s+default packages/i ; print if $in_mand ; $in_mand = 1 if /\s+mandatory packages/i; }' > /tmp/package_base_mandatory I then include the generated file in the %packages section. R.