Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Rudi, On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 00:17 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Well, I setup CentOS 6 using the netinstall ISO, but want to know if there are still packages which I don't need and can remove Do a minimal install then # rpm -qa | sort or # cat /var/log/rpmpkgs then # rpm -e unwanted package

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:32:40AM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: rpm -e will not remove any package that has dependencies on it. Along similar lines there is this short shell script put together by Mike Harris. This will go through all installed rpms and list which may be removable

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-10 Thread Tom Diehl
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Craig White wrote: On Aug 9, 2011, at 3:40 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/09/11 3:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the installer so that I can see

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-10 Thread Tom Diehl
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/09/11 4:02 PM, Craig White wrote: you have a complete kickstart script written for you already... /root/anaconda-ks.cfg speaking of kickstart... I may need to setup a portable kickstart server for CentOS 6 , and I've never really messed with

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-10 Thread Scot P. Floess
+1 I use Cobbler/KOAN all the time... And setting up a bare bones VM - super trivial... On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Tom Diehl wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/09/11 4:02 PM, Craig White wrote: you have a complete kickstart script written for you already...

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-10 Thread John Doe
From: Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the installer so that I can see what I can remove which isn't really necessary once installed? Maybe try something like:   grep

[CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all, I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc. Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 3:10 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi all, I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc. Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 8/9/2011 3:10 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi all, I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig,

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Craig White
On Aug 9, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc. Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: On Aug 9, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig,

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/09/11 3:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the installer so that I can see what I can remove which isn't really necessary once installed? rpm -qa (after doing that

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
snip Craig, yes, and no. I am actually looking for a list of software packages that can be removed without breaking the running OS. like for example bluez-libs or cronie-anacron which isn't necessarily needed for a bare-minimum system to run. I honestly don't just want to delete stuff that

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: snip Craig, yes, and no. I am actually looking for a list of software packages that can be removed without breaking the running OS. like for example bluez-libs or cronie-anacron which isn't necessarily needed for a

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Craig White
On Aug 9, 2011, at 3:40 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/09/11 3:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the installer so that I can see what I can remove which isn't really

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/09/11 4:02 PM, Craig White wrote: you have a complete kickstart script written for you already... /root/anaconda-ks.cfg speaking of kickstart... I may need to setup a portable kickstart server for CentOS 6 , and I've never really messed with it... how do you supply the ks.cfg file

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc. Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig,

[CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote: how do you supply the ks.cfg file when you're PXE booting and have no CD or floppy? ummm ... with DHCP, handing out the correct boot vmlinuz image under PXE for the MAC address in question, and kernel command line arguments, one of which is the