Andrew Cook wrote: > Greetings, > > Is there some way to install SL 4.4 without any X Windows components, > but with useful junk like compilers, NFS, etc.. ? > > I tried picking packages carefully by hand, but in the last step, some > trivial dependencies triggered the install of most (all?) of X , > gnome, and KDE. As an aside, is there some way to look at what will > actually get installed after the dependency check with the ability to > remove stuff? > > This must be documented somewhere - can someone send me a web address? > Many of the cluster projects do this for headless nodes, most use PXEboot + Kickstart network installation server. Oscar uses System Installation Suite and images a golden client. It can be rather tedious picking packages & verifying dependencies. I'm sure others have more examples, or their own custom recipes... Building a tiny CentOS installation - Owl River Company http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/ Kickstart Tools Introduction - How Kickstart Works http://kickstart-tools.sourceforge.net/howkickstartworks.html DAG Footprint - Readme - simplified kickstart creation and management http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/tools/footprint/README KickStart Configurations & CFEngine http://sial.org/howto/kickstart/ Fermi Linux Kickstart http://computing.fnal.gov/unix-users/tips/kickstart/kickstart.73.html RHEL4-SAG Creating the Kickstart File http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-file.html How to use Kickstart (Anaconda's remote control) - 200610 redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/kickstart/?sc_cid=bcm_edmsept_007 System Installation Suite - SISuite Wiki http://wiki.sisuite.org/ -HTH Art@JAX -- Art Wildman - NWS JAX FL. - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax "If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will..." - Grateful Dead
