I have a small NFS-root installation I use for my DAQ systems, but it's 
based on the SL 3.x distro.  It has a footprint of about 20MB.  I have 
not updated it for SL4 since it took quite a bit of work to get it down 
to this size.  We probably shouldn't burden Troy or Connie with this, 
but I think it would be a great idea for us to put together something 
like this that could be shared amongst SL users.

Speaking of the SL 3x distro.  What happens exactly when it is 
end-of-lifed?  Will you freeze it and make the final set of ISO images 
and reclaim the space?  Or, will the original ISOs and the rpm updates 
be available indefinitely?  I have to make plans for transitioning my 
DAQ systems.

Ken


Jan Iven wrote:
>>>  By the way the "Minimal" option has gone too which we never used in
>>> practice but I imagine could be useful.
>>>
>> Actually, I have found that I can do a much more minimal install than
>> before.  Before when you did minimal you got core and base.  Now, you
>> can actually uncheck things out of base.  (Does my server really need
>> pcmcia, I think not, out it goes)  So I now have a much more trim server
>> than I used to get with minimal.
> 
> Would it be worthwhile sharing ideas for a "truly minimal" YUM group
> (i.e. something that easily allows to add things, but is unlikely to
> ever need something taken out of)? This idea has been touted a number of
> times by various CERN users:
> * to easily set up secure-by-default servers (take
> "truly_minimal"+"my_server", let YUM sort out the rest)
> * to create diskless images (i.e http://cern.ch/ahorvath/u-boot or
> NFS-root clients)
> * to create virtual machine images (chroot/Xen)
> 
> If we ever get a good common candidate we could add it to the YUM group
> definition (yumgroups.xml) even after release...
> 
> As Troy has pointed out, TUV "core" wasn't (until now). The proposed
> group should ideally be self-contained (i.e. no dependencies on packages
> not in the group). While YUM certainly handles this better than anaconda
> did, it makes for easier auditing.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Jsn
>