On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, 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)? > This is my 'minimal base' that I start from. You could remove the lvm2 stuff as well. It will do an install of 163 packages and take about 540M of disk. About the only thing you will have is ssh and yum. For a card, you obviously want to change the disk layout. Apply all the other comments to this one. # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda. install url --url <your url here> lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us # xconfig --card "VMWare" --videoram 16384 --hsync 31.5-37.9 --vsync 50-70 --resolution 800x600 --depth 16 network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp rootpw --iscrypted <your pw here> firewall --disabled selinux --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone America/New_York bootloader --location=mbr # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work clearpart --linux --drives=sda part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda part pv.2 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 reboot skipx %packages -nobase yum -acpid -authconfig -bc -checkpolicy -dmraid -policycoreutils -selinux-policy-targeted -libxslt -xmlsec1-openssl -xmlsec1 -nc -lsof -apmd -aspell -aspell-en -autofs -bluez-bluefw -bluez-hcidump -bluez-libs -bluez-utils -crash -cups -cups-libs -dapl -desktop-file-utils -dhcpv6_client -diskdumputils -dos2unix -dosfstools -dump -eject -finger -fontconfig -freetype -ftp -gpm -groff -hdparm -htmlview -ibmasm -indexhtml -ipsec-tools -irda-utils -isdn4k-utils -jpackage-utils -jwhois -kernel-ib -kernel-smp -krb5-workstation -lftp -lha -libgssapi -libibverbs -libmthca -librdmacm -libsdp -libwvstreams -lksctp-tools -logrotate -logwatch -m4 -m4 -mailcap -mailx -man -man-pages -mdadm -minicom -mkbootdisk -mt -mtools -mtr -mt-st -nano -netconfig -netdump -net-snmp-libs -NetworkManager -nfs -nfs-utils-lib -nscd -nss_ldap -numactl -OpenIPMI -OpenIPMI-libs -pam_ccreds -pam_krb5 -pam_passwdqc -pam_smb -parted -patch -pax -pcmcia-cs -pdksh -pinfo -portmap -ppp -procmail -psacct -quota -rdate -rdist -redhat-lsb -redhat-menus -rhpl -rmt -rp-pppoe -rsh -rsync -sendmail -setarch -setools -slocate -specspo -stunnel -sudo -syslinux -sysreport -system-config-mouse -system-config-network-tui -system-config-securitylevel-tui -talk -tcpdump -tcsh -telnet -time -traceroute -unix2dos -up2date -vconfig -wget -which -wireless-tools -wvdial -xorg-x11-libs -xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL -ypbind -yp-tools %post ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine