On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Erik Lonroth wrote: > Hi you all! > > I need a little help on creating a customized kickstart CD > that need to be stripped down to a minimal of rpms on > the CD. > > I have made a working kickstart CD using the RH9 "minimal" > option - copying the anaconda-ks.cfg, generated the hdlist > and burned the iso that works. > > My problem is that I can see that a lot of un-nessesary rpms > are still left on the CD that are never installed (according > to "/root/install.log". I compared the "install.log" to the > RPMS directory and removed ALL other rpms and rebuilt the > CD, hdlist and tried to boot. It didn't even get to the > boot: promt... > > What am I doing wrong here? How do I strip down the CD to > a minimum of rpms?!?!? An excellent way to get an authorative list of the packages and other files you use is to do an HTTP install using a proxy web server - Squid and Apache will both do fine. You then analyse the log to discover all the files you used. > > /Erik Lonroth > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Please, reply only to the list. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
