On 12/6/05, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Matt Lawrence wrote: > > > On 12/5/05, rado <rado at rivers-bend.com> wrote: > As the author of that 'tiny-centos' page, and a long time > anaconda and kickstart hacker, the thought comes to mind; The tiny-centos page is neat and has inspired me to see how extreme I can get with reducing a CentOS installation. Right now, I'm down to 94 packages. In reality, the system will have many more packages than that when I put it into service as a router/firewall, it has a 4GB notebook hard disk, so I'm not realy short on space. I've just been playing around with the small installs for fun. > 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. I've been trying a bit of that as well. Now I should go back to building the router setup. > 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. Yeah, I should write a replacement for yum in Ruby. Heh. On a related note, my Mini-ITX system requires unplugging the power cable and plugging it back in to do a PXEboot. I spent hours trying to figure out what was going on before I stumbled across that fix. -- Matt