Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-08-01 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 12:36 -0400, Kartik Subbarao wrote: I've come up with the following kickstart config (see below) for deploying a minimal CentOS 6 VM. It takes about 460MB. I'm assuming that all of the -firmware RPMs aren't needed for a VM installation, so I removed them. Also removed

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-22 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 07/22/2011 07:01 PM, Kartik Subbarao wrote: On 07/21/2011 09:51 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/KickStart Does anyone on this list have write access to that Wiki page? Since it's the #1 google search result for centos kickstart, it'd be ideal

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-22 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
As of ks file size: who cares ? You create it once and use it as many times as needed. An extra dozen or hundreds of bytes / couple of lines are not significant in this context That wasn't my point :-) I guess I could have said simpler rather than smaller to make my point clearer. The

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-22 Thread Kartik Subbarao
On 07/22/2011 02:16 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: %post rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep -i \\-firmware | grep -v kernel-firmware) And by the way, the above can rewritten in a shorter form: rpm -e $( rpm -qa \*firmware | grep -v kernel) rpm -qa will enumerate all packages but in fact you

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-21 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 07/20/2011 01:50 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:37 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Oh, I believe you I'm just puzzled why I need the package and you don't. Can you post an rpm -qa|sort of the final Package list you have in the installed System? Regards, Dennis Already

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-21 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 07/21/2011 01:43 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 07/20/2011 01:50 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:37 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Oh, I believe you I'm just puzzled why I need the package and you don't. Can you post an rpm -qa|sort of the final Package list you have

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-21 Thread Kartik Subbarao
On 07/20/2011 09:59 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: For what is worth, my minimal kickstart is now available as ks-minimalC6 at https://nazar.karan.org/cgit/bluecain/tree/ This is a nice collection of kickstart files!! Is there any way we could get a link to bluecain added on the CentOS Wiki:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-20 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 07/20/2011 04:48 PM, Kartik Subbarao wrote: On 07/19/2011 05:36 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Try the attached ks. It installs around 180 packages. libselinux-utils is in because I find it mandatory to be able to modify the selinux configuration of an existing system. Thanks for the info. I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-20 Thread JDF. Franklin
For what it's worth here are a few more tools that I include due to fairly minimal impact, but are assumed by many 3rd party scripts for example: rsync unzip wget And personally I like these for local setup though they add a big more space: ntp elinks lsof nmap denyhosts yum-utils autofs

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-20 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 07/21/2011 02:36 AM, JDF. Franklin wrote: For what it's worth here are a few more tools that I include due to fairly minimal impact, but are assumed by many 3rd party scripts for example: rsync unzip wget And personally I like these for local setup though they add a big more space:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-19 Thread Kartik Subbarao
On 07/19/2011 12:36 PM, Kartik Subbarao wrote: rpm -e $(rpm -qa |grep -i firmware) This should be changed to: rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep -i firmware | grep -v kernel-firmware) Since apparently kernel depends on kernel-firmware. -Kartik ___

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-19 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 07/20/2011 12:15 AM, Kartik Subbarao wrote: On 07/19/2011 12:36 PM, Kartik Subbarao wrote: rpm -e $(rpm -qa |grep -i firmware) This should be changed to: rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep -i firmware | grep -v kernel-firmware) Since apparently kernel depends on kernel-firmware. Try the attached ks.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-19 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 07/19/2011 11:36 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 07/20/2011 12:15 AM, Kartik Subbarao wrote: On 07/19/2011 12:36 PM, Kartik Subbarao wrote: rpm -e $(rpm -qa |grep -i firmware) This should be changed to: rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep -i firmware | grep -v kernel-firmware) Since apparently kernel