On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Puneet Goel <puneet.maillist at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! and a warm hello to the CentOS team. > > I have a work for which I need some solution from you. Actually we > have some thin clients where we want to put a light weight Linux > distro for users. As of now I have tested with Fedora and Ubuntu > distros but the issue I am finding is they are not able to fit in my > requirement of flash based hard disk consumption (~500 MB). although a > distro named TinyME which is a custom version of PCLinuxOS seems to be > very near and with a little customization by putting XFCE it was > around 600MB. but it is not well known and supported. > > I have also tried CentOS 5 and 4 (with bare minimum installation) but > it is coming little heavy, however later on I came across a link > (http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/) providing a kickstart file > for a bare minimum CentOS 4. It gave me CentOS 4 which ate around 400 > MB. However it was little near to my specs but without a usable > Desktop (KDE and Gnome seems to be out of question because of heavy > size). Now I need some suggestions from you to make it work on my > system. I need a light version of CentOS (I am very much particular > about OS identity and the final product will retain the parent OS > identity and quality). Can you provide me some kickstart file or > something else which can help me in making a final thing. I do not > need eye candies/OpenOffice/Adobe flash/Games/Media Player etc. Just a > usable desktop, a lightweight file browser and desktop with icons (may > be XFE). Redundant locale, man, doc, /lib/modules etc. will be removed > as well. > > Karan told me that he heard someone installing CentOS 5 in 500MB. Can > anyone point me in right direction. any kickstart file or iso will be > of great help. > > At my personal end I would prefer to put CentOS (As it is based on > RHEL and has an excellent community around). Looking forward to hear > from you. I think you are probably looking for something like 'Thinstation'. With RHEL/CentOS being LAMP oriented, it will always pull in a lot more then you really want. Another option would be to have the OS run over the network by making your stations use NFS mounts to mount a common OS tree that is managed centrally. You can look at the K12 LTSP project for that, they even have a CentOS variety. -Ross