On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 06:33:57PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > There are lower thresholds one cannot go below and still stay > wih current updates. My article on 'tiny centos' provides > 'slimming scripts' to trim away coherent sets to taste > while still satisfying dependencies > http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/ Hmm. If I'm reading the script correctly then the trouble with that is that it needs more space initially before it removes the unnecessary stuff. Also your 4.4 build is larger than an anaconda created 5.0.. I've built smaller configs for my user-mode-linux setup, but these don't necessarily have dependency tree completeness :-) $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.4 (Final) $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ubda 436M 313M 124M 72% / tmpfs 16M 0 16M 0% /tmp Of course there's no kernel, no boot loader etc. It _does_ work yum, so I can upgrade with 'yum update'. > But to me, the question really is -- Is CentOS the right > distribution for this? -- a minimal Debian Testing install can > be made much smaller. Just because one is familiar with > hammers does not mean one should be shaving cats with one There's a few reasons: 1) Can I? The challenge :-) 2) Familiarity 3) No need to keep tracking and patching a different OS build But #1 is the main reason :-) -- rgds Stephen