On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 11:12 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Erick Perez wrote: > > Hi, just to avoid re-inventing the wheel, is there any document that > > can help me reduce even further a "minimum" installation of Centos 4.4 > > (BTW can you say 600mb is minimum)? > > it is yes, the base minimum is what App and Solution vendors are then > able to assume will be the minimum functional level of a machine, > running CentOS. > > > I am in the process of creating a small Centos-4.4-based Asterisk box > > and I need to boot it from a CF card. Deleting useless packages will > > help me do what i want. > > Example: even a minimum install of Centos 4.4 (or Redhat EL for what > > is worth) includes CUPS, among other things. > > it comes from the LSB compatibility specifications. cups is required as > is a MTA and a bunch of other things. > > if you really want to trim down, get yum going and rpm -qa, check what > you dont want, then remove it. > This might also help you ... it seems to produce the minimum workable install that meets all dependency requirements: http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/ (you may have to modify it slightly for 4.4, but the concepts will work) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060928/f99f270e/attachment-0005.sig>