Tim Edwards wrote: > John Hinton wrote: >> Craig White wrote: >> I don't know, I must be choosing something that's throwing the extra >> garbage in. And I know, I could write my own KS, but gee, I don't do >> it often enough for that and some machines vary, for instance some >> are nameservers some are not. A person can spend a lot of time in >> dependancy hell trying to get a clean install. If one does select >> minimal, are you presented with the custom option during install? Or >> is minimal only available at the bottom of the customization screen? >> Seems like figuring out what's missing might not be worth the effort >> to trim the fat? And maybe I'm crazy, but it seems that installing >> packages like bind during the intial install, configures itself more >> completely off the start >> versus installing the package later? >> >> A great point was made..... Custom should be Custom and should allow >> minimal within that scope. Custom doesn't even seem to have nearly >> the full package list shown, although yes, it can be argued that some >> packages simply must be installed and therefore don't need to be >> shown. Then again, maybe one of my 'other' selections is throwing X >> into the game? >> >> When CentOS finalizes their 'Server CD', perhaps a copy should be >> sent >> to RedHat!! LOL! >> >> Again, I know this is not a 'CentOS' issue. And crap... here I go >> rambling again! Sorry. > > Just to throw in my $0.02: we do minimal installs with all our RHEL > and CentOS boxes (both 3 and 4) and it really is minimal - no X, no > GUI, no KDE/GNOME or Window Managers. If you're building a server > then you know what should be on it so you can just do things like > 'yum install httpd php mysql' or whatever to get yourself going. Its > a very clean way of doing things. I do exactly the same process, minimal install, then "yum install <what-I-need-on-this-server>". I have been thinking of trying to produce a list of superfluous packages that are installed with the minimal install. Has anyone already done this so I can simply paste a "yum remove <non-required-packages>" after a minimal install to achieve a true minimal install? Dean