[CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

Thu Jul 12 18:18:34 UTC 2012
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:04:40PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:16:23 AM Lars Hecking wrote:
> >  The problem with the selinux rpms is that they need copious amounts of RAM
> >  during installation. From my experience, a minimum of 0.75 to 1GB.

> But that's a good data point, and really should be addressed as part of the system requirements for upstream.... actually, 1GB is the recommended minimum RAM on a 32 bit system by upstream.

Would a minimal kickstart file do?  This is mine, which I use to build
small VMS (4Gb disk, 512Mb RAM)

  install
  url --url http://repo/CentOS/DVD/CentOS-6
  text
  reboot

  lang en_US.UTF-8
  keyboard us

  network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --ipv6 auto

  rootpw  --iscrypted yeahyeahyeah
  authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512

  firewall --disabled
  selinux --disabled

  timezone --utc America/New_York

  zerombr yes
  clearpart --all --initlabel
  part /boot --fstype=ext4 --asprimary --size=100
  part swap --asprimary --size=512
  part / --fstype=ext4 --asprimary --grow --size=1
  bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=vda --append=" crashkernel=auto quiet"

  repo --name="CentOS"  --baseurl=http://repo/CentOS/DVD/CentOS-6 --cost=100
  repo --name="Updates" --baseurl=http://repo/CentOS/updates/centos6/x86_64 --cost=500

  %packages --nobase
  @core
  yum
  openssh-server
  openssh-clients
  ksh
  dos2unix
  ntp-perl
  logwatch
  wget
  acpid
  yum-plugin-priorities
  bind-utils
  -checkpolicy
  -policycoreutils
  -selinux-policy
  -selinux-policy-targeted
  -efibootmgr
  -kernel-firmware
  -aic94xx-firmware
  -atmel-firmware
  -b43-openfwwf
  -bfa-firmware
  -ipw2100-firmware
  -ipw2200-firmware
  -ivtv-firmware
  -iwl100-firmware
  -iwl1000-firmware
  -iwl3945-firmware
  -iwl4965-firmware
  -iwl5000-firmware
  -iwl5150-firmware
  -iwl6000-firmware
  -iwl6000g2a-firmware
  -iwl6000g2b-firmware
  -iwl6050-firmware
  -libertas-usb8388-firmware
  -netxen-firmware
  -ql2100-firmware
  -ql2200-firmware
  -ql23xx-firmware
  -ql2400-firmware
  -ql2500-firmware
  -rt61pci-firmware
  -rt73usb-firmware
  -xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware
  -zd1211-firmware

  %post
  %end

-- 

rgds
Stephen