> What I use, during install, is based on the "z/VM and Linux on IBM > System z: The Virtualization Cookbook" is:
Then, Marian Gasparovic did a lot of work to document how to further pare it down. See section 7.5.5 for complete details (book is on linuxvm.org/present). But the bottom line is that, for SLES 10, these commands should lose another 100Kb to about 827M: # rpm -e fvwm2 hfsutils initviocons ntfsprogs pmtools providers usbutils xfsprogs zsh # rpm -e bootsplash-theme-SuSE-SLES bootsplash desktop-data-NLD xdg-menu yast2-powertweak powersave-libs-32bit powersave-libs cpufrequtils-32bit cpufrequtils gnome-icon-theme # rpm -e smpppd ppp wvdial telnet dosfstools dmraid fribidi ipmitool # rpm -e cups-libs cups-client cups-libs-32bit yast2-printer yast2-samba-server yast2-samba-client yast2-cd-creator joe lukemftp yast2-dhcp-server dhcpcd yast2-tftp-server yast2-firewall yast2-http-server mutt # rpm -e zmd-inventory wvstreams vlock imlib glib gtk hdparm yast2-tune yast2-backup scsi yast2-iscsi-server yast2-iscsi-client OpenIPMI autoyast2 autoyast2-utils gpart yast2-repair xli # rpm -e bind-libs bind-libs-32bit bind-utils yast2-dns-server ypbind We've run with these RPMs deleted for a while and the systems seem to be fine. "Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (845) 433-7061 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
