rpmstrap comes with centos3 and centos4 config files.  I suggest that you 
just change the "mirror" locations of these as SL is compatible with 
centos3 and centos4.  There are a few entries that have "centos" in the 
name that need changing.  Just remove the "centos-" part.

-Connie Sieh
 On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, John A. Goebel wrote:

> ++ 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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