Smallest Possible Kickstart configs for RHEL3 and/or RHEL4?

[Dan Trainor]

Jim Wildman wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hi -

Never said it was completely neccesary - I've just become particularly 
anal with my installs.  If I can do all this work and play aroudn with 
it, why not? ;)

That's an excellent article, thanks.

-dant