Hi,
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:43:40 -0700 "Trenton Adams"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware?
No, not for that use, but for other uses, yes. But you need to specify
what exactly you mean by saying "minimized".
I wouldn't go the road and use LFS, as suggested here. IMHO, LFS is
absolutely not the way to go when in need for security updates and
stuff. Gentoo does it just fine.
OTOH, you won't be able to run Tomcat with 64MB of RAM without it
getting veeeery sluggish...
My suggestion would be to setup a "master" chroot environment on some
crafty machine and compile binary packages for all the software you
need, then distribute them to the VMs by setting up stage3's and set
PORTAGE_BINHOST appropriately. If you want to strip down documentation,
locales and stuff, have a look at the scripting facilities of portage:
e.g. put this into /etc/portage/bashrc (on the "master" chroot, if you
go with a buildhost):
---snip
post_src_install() {
rm -rf image/usr/share/man
rm -rf image/usr/share/doc
}
---snip
HTH,
-hwh
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