minimal RHEL4 webserver

[R P Herrold <herrold owlriver com>]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Franco Saliola wrote:

> I'm wondering whether there is a way to get a "minimal" RHEL4
> installation with httpd. And by minimal, I don't just mean a base
> system plus httpd. I'd like to have the auxillary apache modules plus
> the nice security services in RHEL4 (psacct, for instance).

I wrote a general tool, documented at:

   http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/

Because of the ongoing questions on getting to truely 'minimum 
size' installs, we sat down to develop and document a general 
(works with RHL, Aurora, YDL, RHEL, Centos, Tao, ...) 
kickstart configuration file and script, to work generally for 
any anaconda installation mediated host, for this goal state 
-- This ks.cfg is suitable for doing such 'tiny' 
installations. It is of the customary type ks.cfg file, with 
some 'special sauce' in the %post stanza, to strip out 
undesired package.

Result size will be a tad over this, after you (post-install) 
the httpd, etc., but certainly under 400M:

df
==============================

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% 
Mounted on
/dev/hda1               806368    349520    415884  46% /
none                     62612         0     62612   0% /dev/shm

-- Russ Herrold