Marco, I think if you do a "minimal" install (available on the "groups" screen way at the bottom) then you get about 550mb. -Connie Sieh On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Marco La Rosa wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanx for the responses! > > Not long after sending the first email I was looking on the sl304 CD and > found the comps.xml and pkgorder files. Using the comps.xml file I built > a list of necessary rpms using the core and base sections and then > ordered them using pkgorder. > > Using: > > rpm -ivh --nodeps --root /new-chroot package-blah-123.rpm > > I built myself a system. Well, it became a system following multiple: > > rpm -Va --root /new-chroot followed by more package installation, > followed by rpm -vA > > --> well, you get the gist. > > That worked fine except the base system ending up being something like > 600Mb! (I think my debian system was something like 200Mb) A quick > google search turned up a heated debate as to why RH makes their base > system so big (which stopped me from writing to the list and complaining > about redhat ;-) > > After looking around some more, I stumbled across rpmstrap. I gave it my > original minimal list (just the base and core rpms) and it died > spectacularly! Tried it again with my sanctioned, enormous (600 Mb) > package list and it worked. But, it didn't occur to me to try the centos > list. I'll give that a go and see how big their system is. > > So, I have one question: > Is my base system about the correct size (what is expected)? > > So that's my experience with building a base (or something like that) > SciLin (RH) system without using the gui. > > Parents, tell your children not to try this at home! ;) > > Thanx again, > Marco. > > > > > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:27 -0500, Connie Sieh wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > ############################################## > > > # John Goebel <jgoebel(at)slac.stanford.edu> # > > > # Stanford Linear Accelerator Center # > > > # 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 # > > > ############################################ # > > > > >