Smallest Possible Kickstart configs for RHEL3 and/or RHEL4?

[Jim Wildman]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Dan Trainor wrote:

> I know I whined and complained a lot about it, but i've finally got the 
> process of completely re-mastering the install, down perfectly.
> 
> I go as far as editing comps.xml, and adding/removing packages from 
> @base and @core, so I do not have to speficy any additional packages or 
> package groups.
> 

Not really necessary.

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

"The design criteria in deciding if a given package was necesssary, was:
May it be removed without violating a dependency requirement? The code
performs this test repeatedly until no additional single package may be
removed.

With that effort, we get a CentOS 4[.0] install down to 349 Meg. Six
months after the initial release of this document, we added detail for a
fully updated CentOS 4.2 system. As of 27 October 2005, such an install
weighs in at 376 Meg. (376,024). The first figure in the 4.2 listing was
pre-update; the second, post."

With props to Russ Herrold, of course.

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