Re: Rebuilding minimal install iso RHEL 4 (U1)

["Stephen J. Smoogen" <smooge gmail com>]

On 10/6/05, Francis Swasey <Frank Swasey uvm edu> wrote:
> On 10/6/05 2:08 AM, Michael Stiller wrote:
> > I think all that packages are still addable and don't need to be
> > in a "minimal" installation set. E.g. if you prefer nano, install it.
> > If you need headless support, install mgetty etc.
> > But it should be removed from the minimal install.
>
> I believe a minimal install should assume it is headless...
> I believe it should assume that I will be using ntp to keep time in sync
>   (instead of forcing me to install that)
>
> Basically... I use the minimal install, but I agree that the person who
> designed the minimal install didn't design it for my environment.
>

They designed it for the 20 or so people who each said this is what
they needed for a minimal environment. I am guessing that really what
some people want for a minimal environment is:

SysVinit
basesystem
bash
chkconfig
coreutils
cpio
cyrus-sasl
device-mapper
e2fsprogs
ethtool
filesystem
findutils
gawk
glib2
glibc
grep
gzip
hotplug
hwdata
info
initscripts
iproute
iputils
kbd
kernel
krb5-libs
less
libattr
libselinux
libsepol
libuser
lvm2
mingetty
mkinitrd
mktemp
module-init-tools
ncurses
net-tools
openldap
openssl
pam
passwd
pcre
popt
psmisc
readline
rpm
sed
selinux-policy-targeted
setup
shadow-utils
sysklogd
udev
usermode
util-linux


And the rest they would choose from then on.




--
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator