++ 04/08/05 10:50 -0500 - <Connie Sieh>:

Hi,

> And the "core" entry too.
> 
> -Connie Sieh
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
> > Marco La Rosa wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I was wondering if anyone has a list of packages (in the correct
> > > installation order) required to build a minimal, bootable Sci Linux 304
> > > system?
> > > 
> > > I have found a software package called rpmstrap (google rpmstrap) which
> > > works like debootstrap but it requires a package list.
> > > 
> > > Thanx in advance,
> > > Marco.
> > 
> > A good start would be to look in the comps.xml file and get all the 
> > rpm's in the section "base"
> > To be honest, I think you can actually take out some of even the base 
> > one's, but I'm not sure which ones.  But it's the best place to start.
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/304/i386/SL/base/comps.xml

Troy pointed to the 304 version. I just wanted to give you a heads-up if your
thinking about using 40x. Unless the SciLinux developers have changed the
comps.xml list to include tftp client, it's not included in the base or
anywhere else in the list. This will hurt you if you plan to do PXE boot since
the common scheme is to tftp a file, often called 'Kickstart_end', to indicate
the install is done and remove the hex link file so PXE is ignored and the
system boots locally. 

This bit me last night.

Modifying and rebuilding the list isn't hard though.


John

> > Troy
> > 

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