Why do I need mDNSResponder/howl?

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 11:29 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> 
>>There's already bug report about bloated minimal install, that I opened 
>>last November.  I haven't went as far as attempting to generate better 
>>comps.xml for minimal installs.
>>
>>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139364
>>
> 
> 
> Checked your package lists, and most of your recommendations are similar
> to mine. Can you do me a favor and check my kickstart file
> (barebones.ks)? It's giving me errors and I don't know why, and clearly
> you have more experience with it.

What is the exact error message?  Anaconda is very picky about format of 
that file (as if RedHat people never intended for that file to be edited 
by hand).

By looking at it, the only things that pops out is that you have single 
file system, root, on logical volume.  Whatever partition holds /boot 
directory, can't be part of LVM and/or RAID device (except RAID1).

Try something like this:

part /boot --size 64 --ondisk hda --fstype ext3 --asprimary
part pv.00 --size 1 --grow --ondisk hda --asprimary
volgroup sys pv.00
logvol swap --name swap --vgname sys --fstype swap --size 256
logvol / --name root --vgname sys --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow

P.S.
Actually, what I use is preinstall script (in %pre section) that uses 
list-harddrives command to get names and sizes of hard drives.  Than 
based on number of disks and their sizes, I'm outputting something like 
above into temp file, which is included from first secion of kickstart 
file.  Anaconda will ignore non-existing include files when it parses 
ks.cfg, and it will reparse ks.cfg after scripts in %pre section were 
executed (this time including my custom made partition info).  That way 
I have single ks.cfg that works on all installs, and builds mirrors (if 
system has two disks), and automatically adjusts partition sizes 
depending on the available disk space.

Something like:

%include /tmp/partitions.cfg
%pre
echo "my partition info" > /tmp/partitions.cfg

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