On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 08:45 -0800, Stephen A. Smith wrote:
> Hi
> I'm part of a group that is setting up a Beowulf cluster (64 nodes with
> dual procs (3.2GHz Xeons) connected via myrinet) with Scientific Linux.
>  I was told to strip down the base install to reduce the install size. 
I agree with what Paul Greidanus says. Just do a base install and don't
worry too much about it.

As you're doing an image-based install, once you have the Myrinet
drivers compiled up you should be able to copy them somewhereinto the
tree for your installed image, chroot to the image root directory and
run the Myrinet install script. 
Put the binaries and libraries in /usr/local and mount across the
cluster.
Do you intend to use MX or GM?