Installing minimal number of packages

[Michael DeHaan]

Shabazian, Chip wrote:
>  
> Outside of doing a genhd and creating your own comps.xml file
> (complicated, but getting easier), you can either start with --no-base
> and add packages back in, or keep base and remove packages you don't
> want <snip>

Cobbler ships with one example kickstart that uses the following:

%packages --nobase
crontabs
dhclient
dhcpv6_client
nfs-utils
openssh-clients
openssh-server
yum


That's fairly minimal, but still includes yum so you can install what 
you might have accidentally left out. Work up from there.

--Michael DeHaan