On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:02:40PM +0800 or thereabouts, John wrote: > 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. > > > Thanx! I'll give it a try! /Erik Lonroth
