ks] Minimal Install Guidelines

[R P Herrold]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, dan wrote:

> I've been working with a few documents that describe how to go about making a 
> minimalistic install, but they all seem kinda hoakey.  I know you guys 
> probably have a lot of experience doing this sort of thing, so I'm hoping 
> that I might be able to get some answers from you all.

from the better late than never department:

I wrote a general tool:

    http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/

Because the of the ongoing questions, we sat down to develop 
and document a kickstart configuration file and script, to 
work generally for any anaconda installation mediated host, 
for this goal state -- This ks.cfg is suitable for doing such 
'tiny' installations. It is of the customary type ks.cfg file, 
with some 'special sauce' in the %post stanza, to strip out 
undesired package.

-- Russ Herrold