Hi Something that keeps coming up is how far can we minimalise an Instance / Image / Installer before we cant call it CentOS anymore. In the past, what we have generally stuck with is: - CentOS Shipped kernel - Initscripts - functional yum - functional openssh-server - atleast all of @base however, in some cases, openssh-server might not be needed, and initscripts has a fairly long dep tree, similarly making yum work needs a few things. Can we get away with losing yum as an example and replacing it with a script that says 'need yum? I can download and install it for you' and have it hit mirror.centos.org for static yum and yum dep urls ? similarly, should nobase and nocore be acceptable ? the aim being to setup a base image, that is under 150mb to download and deploy. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc