Smallest Possible Kickstart configs for RHEL3 and/or RHEL4?

[Shabazian, Chip]

I used this script to get myself down to 68 rpms and 262MB on a bootable
RHEL 3 machine.

rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n" > rpms
# remove rpm and kernel from the generated list or you can't add/remove
packages, or boot!
for i in `cat rpms`; do rpm -e $i; if [ "$?" -eq 0 ] ; then  echo -e "$i
has been removed" >> removed_rpms.txt ; fi; done

Re-run the script until no more packages are deleted.

I want to try this again with a --nobase build when I have time to see
how many of my removes I don't have to list with that flag.

After I used the above script, I then evaluated what was left, added
back packages *I* wanted, and ended up with the below %packages section.

%packages
# you COULD delete the following, but I want them
#-portmap
#-openssh-clients
#-openssh-server
#-openssh
#-openssl
#-vim-minimal
#-vim-common
#-dhclient
# To install a Minimum X environment, the following is all that is
needed
# XFree86-twm
-cyrus-sasl
-cyrus-sasl-md5
-glib2
-kbd
-krb5-libs
-libuser
-openldap
-tcp_wrappers
-usermode
-zip
-xinetd
-wget
-vixie-cron
-usbutils
-up2date
-unzip
-unix2dos
-traceroute
-tmpwatch
-time
-telnet
-tcsh
-tcpdump
-sysreport
-symlinks
-stunnel
-specspo
-slocate
-sharutils
-sendmail
-rsync
-rpm-python
-rpmdb-redhat
-rootfiles
-rmt
-rhpl
-rhnlib
-redhat-release
-redhat-menus
-redhat-logos
-readline
-raidtools
-quota
-pyxf86config
-python-optik
-python
-pyOpenSSL
-psacct
-procmail
-pinfo
-pdksh
-pciutils
-patch
-passwd
-parted
-nss_ldap
-nscd
-nfs-utils
-netdump
-netconfig
-ncompress
-mt-st
-mtr
-mtools
-mgetty
-mdadm
-man-pages
-man
-MAKEDEV
-make
-mailx
-mailcap
-m4
-lsof
-lslk
-logwatch
-logrotate
-lockdev
-libtool-libs
-libstdc++
-libgcj
-kernel-utils
-kernel
-htmlview
-hotplug
-hesiod
-hdparm
-groff
-gnupg
-gmp
-ftp
-file
-elfutils
-eject
-ed
-dump
-dos2unix
-diffutils
-devlabel
-cyrus-sasl-plain
-crontabs
-cpio
-bzip2
-binutils
-bind-utils
-bc
-autofs
-authconfig
-attr
-at
-fbset
-finger
-iptables-ipv6
-irda-utils
-isdn4k-utils
-jfsutils
-jwhois
-krb5-workstation
-krbafs-utils
-lftp
-lha
-libwvstreams
-nano
-ppp
-prelink
-rdate
-redhat-config-mouse
-redhat-config-soundcard
-rp-pppoe
-rsh
-samba
-samba-common
-schedutils
-setarch
-star
-sudo
-talk
-tftp
-vconfig
-wireless-tools
-wvdial
-cyrus-sasl-gssapi
-ipsec-tools
-libobjc
-pam_smb
-acl
-apmd
-aspell
-cups
-cups-libs
-dosfstools
-gettext
-iptables
-krbafs
-libjpeg
-libpng
-libtiff
-minicom
-mkbootdisk
-nc
-ntsysv
-pam_krb5
-pax
-pspell
-rdist
-redhat-config-network-tui
-redhat-config-securitylevel-tui
-redhat-lsb
-setserial
-setuptool
-syslinux
-utempter
-ash
-kernel-pcmcia-cs
-yp-tools
-ypbind
-acpid
-authd
-diskdumputils
-eal3-certification
-eal3-certification-doc
-iscsi-initiator-utils
-jpackage-utils
-laus
-nss_db
-pam_passwdqc
-up2date-update

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Brian Long
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 7:33 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Smallest Possible Kickstart configs for RHEL3 and/or RHEL4?

I would recommend playing around with the following:

%packages --nobase

This tells Anaconda to only install @Core and not install @Base.  Of
course, when you do this, certain Anaconda ks.cfg directives break
because they expect @Base to be installed.  For example, if you have
"selinux --disabled" in your ks.cfg, but you don't manually specify
system-config-securitylevel-tui in your %packages, Anaconda will
silently fail to disable SELinux  :)

I would recommend taking the work mentioned elsewhere in the thread
about TinyCentOS.  They've done all the work you require to get a
minimal install.

/Brian/
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