[CentOS] Re: centos] Installation failure
R P Herrold
herrold at owlriver.com
Tue Dec 6 17:02:08 UTC 2005
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> On 12/5/05, rado <rado at rivers-bend.com> wrote:
> The Soekris net4801 is a really nifty device for embedded use, but it
> can be a pain to do thsi sort of debugging on since it only has a
> serial port for a console.
> After reading the tiny-centos web page, I'm trying to build a truly
> minimal installation. I have deselcted almost every default package
> Yes, I'm doing strange and terrible things to anaconda. I'm a geek.
smile -- Didn't I help you in the IRC channel a while back?
As the author of that 'tiny-centos' page, and a long time
anaconda and kickstart hacker, the thought comes to mind;
The _reason_ I did my reduction work in the %post stanza, was
that mucking with ks/anaconda during proof of concept/
development is too much buck for not enough bang; reverse it
to a high bang/buck ratio using %post to get a clean
packagelist, and _then_ muck with ks/anaconda.
Better still, then write a minimal custom fdisk/mkfs/busybox,
and rsync/rpm/yum tool and grub-install tool, a la cAos'
'cinch' installer, and cut even more cruft away for embedded
work.
-- Russ Herrold
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