Minimal RHEL4 install

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Barry Brimer wrote:

> I know this is for CentOS .. but I have used it with RHEL 
> with no problems.

no -- it is NOT "for CentOS" ;) CentOS was merely the platform 
at which 'we sat down to develop and document a kickstart 
configuration file and script, to work generally for any 
anaconda installation mediated host' RHEL is one.

The script also works fine for RHL 6.0 on, Aurora 1 on, my 
Netwinders, Scientific Linux (all), Yellow Dog Linux 3 on, or 
(one assumes) any Fedora.  Each use anaconda, and have 
sufficient minimal %post scripting capabilities.

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

All the action happens in the script part in the %post -- it 
was not optimized for speed, and the whitelist handling is not 
so good, and stale but hey -- I've been doing hands off 
installations and testing for a long time now.  Speed was (and 
is) not in the design requrements.

But, nothing prevents a person from running it on a standalone 
basis,  post-install.  I pushed a copy a while back to:
 	ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/COLUG/tiny-centos.sh
so I may pull and run it to put a fat box on a starter diet. 
[last August, I started stashing bits and pieces I use at 
local LUG presentations in that part of the FTP tree -- 
Don't worry; the Debian and OS/X bits are harmless ;) ]

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