On Monday 29 November 2004 19:31, Jim Martin wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > >>I know the feeling about poor documentation, I have been trying to > >>figure out how to create a scaled down version of FC2 and now 3, all I > >>want is the core Linux files, Xorg and KDE, and I would like to be able > >>to use anaconda to install it. I have no idea where to start, and > >>searching google resulted in me pulling out my hair, and breaking a few > >>dozen pencils. anyone have any advice they would like to share :) please. > > > >Why not just use kickstart? > > > >-sv > > Kickstart has a lot of nice features, but the idea here is to create an > installable boot cd, that i can give to friends to install FC from 1 cd, > not 4. but I will continue to read up on kickstart , thanks Seth. I`ve played/still am playing with kickstart a lot. In my expirience this approach works only with a 'heavely' adjusted and tested comps file - and if you make it use just one section that includes a list of rpms that is known&tested as 'working' (that`s what i normally do). Even then one isn`t on the safe side since a single package dependency can easely lead into a full chain that needs to be resolved (+ more interdependecies) and suddenly you have an X server (and/or a lot of other stuff) where you never wanted one. That problem does not exist in fedora alone - just some days before i`ve seen a suse server (a root server with only LAMP, pop/imap etc) with gnome-vfs, pango, image-magick etc. installed - just because some perl modules have it filed as requirement (*shudder*). So you almost always end up in 'hand crafting' a reasonable small subset that you can use to start with - for every new release which is somewhat time expensive. (BTW: thanks god for yum! :) Best Regards, Dirk Westfal