On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Daniel_Curry at Dell.com wrote: > Hello, all. > > I'm looking at building about a dozen CentOS VM's for a project. I have > a desire to use kickstart for this coupled with PXE. I'm looking for a > minimal ks.cfg file specifically, I want the bare minimum of software > that is needed for a system to function. I will need sshd and yum as > the only 'services or applications' on top of the OS. Does anyone have > an example I can work with, or suggestions on getting to this minimal > configuration? I'm just looking to save some time, rather than > re-inventing what may and probably is already out there. I assume that you are looking for all of the packages that can be removed from an install that just has @core and @virtualization specified for the package groups that you want installed? -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com The point of the HPC scheduler is to keep everyone equally unhappy.