Ralph Angenendt a écrit : > > So can you get a mirrorlist by hand? Can you reach the > mirrorlist.centos.org server? Are you behind a proxy? > > See CentOS-Base.repo for the mirrorhost url and replace $arch with your > architecture and $releasever with 5 ... > I did quite some experimentation, and I think I found a regressive bug (well, sort of) in CentOS 5.4. I did this on three distinct machines, with the same result. Here goes. In previous versions of CentOS (that is, 5.0 to 5.3), it was possible to perform a very minimal install by deselecting [ ] GNOME, then selecting [*] Customize package selection, and then again, in the subsequent package selection window, unselect everything, even [ ] Base. That way, in 5.3, I got a system with about 160 packages, which I took as a starting point for both servers (install httpd, mysql-server, whatever is needed) and desktops (install X11, GNOME, apps as needed). But now, this functionality seems broken. If I do the same thing with a fresh CentOS 5.4 install DVD, I see I now have a minimal set of 191 packages (gtk2? What the ***!?!). On the other hand, neither SSH nor Yum nor even RPM don't work, as they all claim a missing libnss3.so. Now here's a Catch22, since I can't install it when RPM is not working (except by mounting the system with a LiveCD and jump through some burning loops). Of course, I took the pragmatic approach and just installed the whole load of "base" packages. rpm -qa | wc -l tells me I now have a "minimal" set of no less than 378 packages to have a coherent base system (without X). Any idea why the minimal install selection got broken, or some suggestions on how to solve that problem? Cheers, Niki