Use a kickstart-file that has a "nobase" statement.. And have a look at CLIP (http://oss.tresys.com/projects/clip/wiki/WikiStart) for a truly minimal kickstart (and a lot of other security related stuff, if you're interested).. Cheers, Bart ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists at karan.org> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:17:28 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: [CentOS] truly minimal install David Hláčik wrote: > My question is, which way i will achieve really minimum install (with yum). > So far, i have during install unchecked all packages , then customized > groups and removed everything including base system. > As a result my CentOS install was 800MB , which is still to much for us. > Value around 300 - 400 MB is OK. do a bunch of 'yum erase' runs postinstall to remove whatever you dont need ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos