On 12/6/05, R P Herrold <herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Matt Lawrence wrote:
>
> > On 12/5/05, rado <rado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As the author of that 'tiny-centos' page, and a long time
> anaconda and kickstart hacker, the thought comes to mind;
The tiny-centos page is neat and has inspired me to see how extreme I
can get with reducing a CentOS installation. Right now, I'm down to
94 packages. In reality, the system will have many more packages than
that when I put it into service as a router/firewall, it has a 4GB
notebook hard disk, so I'm not realy short on space. I've just been
playing around with the small installs for fun.
> The _reason_ I did my reduction work in the %post stanza, was
> that mucking with ks/anaconda during proof of concept/
> development is too much buck for not enough bang; reverse it
> to a high bang/buck ratio using %post to get a clean
> packagelist, and _then_ muck with ks/anaconda.
I've been trying a bit of that as well. Now I should go back to
building the router setup.
> Better still, then write a minimal custom fdisk/mkfs/busybox,
> and rsync/rpm/yum tool and grub-install tool, a la cAos'
> 'cinch' installer, and cut even more cruft away for embedded
> work.
Yeah, I should write a replacement for yum in Ruby. Heh.
On a related note, my Mini-ITX system requires unplugging the power
cable and plugging it back in to do a PXEboot. I spent hours trying
to figure out what was going on before I stumbled across that fix.
-- Matt
