thanks! I'll give this a whirl. At a certain point, I got sick of going into a machine and finding half the diagnostic utilities (and their dependent libraries) weren't installed and that just impeded tracking down the real issues I was having. I'm in no mood to wait and pull down packages (and potentially not install depending on what's going wrong) at 4am. greg On Jun 24, 2008, at 7:07 PM, nate wrote: > Gregory Gerard wrote: > >> Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is >> known to work and really get everything? > > How about something like this > cd /path/to/centos/RPMS/dir > rpm -q -p *rpm >/tmp/packages.list > > and put the contents of /tmp/packages.list in your kickstart to > get everything installed. > > Or if you don't want to list the version numbers something like > for i in `echo *rpm`; do rpm --queryformat %{NAME} -q -p $i 2>/dev/ > null;echo > "";done | tee /tmp/packages.list > > Not that I can think of a good reason to install every package > available.. > > There may be packages that conflict with other packages as well, I've > never tried installing everything before. > > nate > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos