[Gllug] Stripped down CentOS 5.3

[Hakuna Matata]

Thanks a million  Stuart,

I guess this is what i need :)


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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
> On 25/05/09 16:01, Hakuna Matata wrote:
>> Cool,
>>
>> Thanks for the TIP.
>> what i want to my system for sure is Apache/Tomcat/Mysql  thats all.
>> now i do not know who is the best contender to remove from the linux.
>
> The package set you listed includes gnome-utils, which will have a huge
> number of dependencies on the GNOME infrastructure (here on Fedora
> almost-11 it requires 39 other packages, mostly from GNOME, which will
> all have their own deps).
> This means the likelihood of you getting a noticeably minimal
> installation and still keeping gnome-utils is challenging.
>
> Incidentally, at least in fedora, to get this information, you can do
> yum deplist gnome-utils
>
>
> ** warning - destructive advice follows ***
> You *could* do a fresh install using the 'kickstart' system with a very
> minimal package set. Many companies do this kind of thing with their
> standard builds. This may (okay, definitely will) take some tuning and
> experimentation.
>
> The kickstart config used for your current installation is saved as
> /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
>
> You'll want to at least uncomment and possibly edit the partitioning parts.
>
> in the %packages section you can trim right down to
> @Base
> # now list all the other things you require
> httpd
> php5
> etc
> etc
>
> which provides the 'bare minimum' package set (with all its
> dependencies). This will also figure out the dependencies of the other
> packages. However, it is difficult to install packages that are not in
> the default install trees this way
>
> or, for the braver of heart (this is where the trial and error begins)
>
> %packages --nobase
> and then list all of the package names you want, one per line.
>
> Bear in mind that the --nobase bit effectively says "I know exactly what
> I'm doing, please leave dependency checking to me" and may take a while
> to get right. Dependency chasing is not fun when you have to do it mamually.
>
> Once you've listed everything, save the file to a usb key, boot from
> your DVD/CD and at the 'boot:' prompt, type
>
> linux ks=hd:sdb1:/path/to/anaconda-ks.cfg
>
> (which assumes the USB key will be /dev/sdb)
>
>
> If you want the most minimal with the least effort, I would suggest
> building from the @base option and then yum installing the other things.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Stuart
>
>
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