On 19 March 2014 10:32, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > 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. > The bare minimum I have had to help groups get down to is basically a kernel+busybox with scripts that they could install whatever they wanted from there. As I see busybox isn't installed by default anymore on Fedora I can see this was a lot longer in the past than I realized. If there is a 'newer' shinier replacement to busybox I don't know what that is but it may be more of the 'way' to go these days. I would call that a nano install. It should give you just enough to get other stuff onto a box to make it usable if you have the time and love to write the scripts to do the stuff that would need to get yum and other stuff working. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140319/0c3d4aa7/attachment-0007.html>