I am attempting a minimal fc3 install <500 MB, I was shooting for <200MB. Looking at the @core package group from comps.xml. My calculations show this group to be about 130MB and its description tag reads "<description>Smallest possible installation</description>". However the "Minimal Install" from the installer is about 530MB. With some research it looks like, the minimal install is not just @core but also @base and @dialup. I can easily exclude @dialup by setting the uservisible tag to true and unselecting this package group. When I try the same for @base it does not show up in the package selection list?
So my questions are these
1. Is it possible though some ks syntax to exclude a default package group from my kickstart config ? i.e. -@ PackageGroup ? If this were possible I may be able to try -@base and -@dialup leaving only @core.
2. Is it possible to not use any package group at all and simply select the packages I want ? In this case I would just list out all the rpms in the @core group and thats it .. possibly some extras.
3. Is there a way to create your own core package group.. this would sever the same purpose as number 2 but possibly make it more flexible. Note I know you can create your own extra package groups my goal is to modify the existing @core group.
Some other things to note.. I would like to have the kickstart totally unattended. I basically have the install unattended with PXE,TFTP,NFS,DHCP but .. I need to tweak the packages.
-Matt
Matt Higgins wrote:
- Is it possible though some ks syntax to exclude a default package
group from my kickstart config ? i.e. -@ PackageGroup ? If this were possible I may be able to try -@base and -@dialup leaving only @core.
Theoretically, it is possible not to install Base group. You would do something like this:
%packages --no-base
In reality, it doesn't work. Base with all junk that it will pull gets installed anyhow. See bug 139364 for more details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139364
Some other things to note.. I would like to have the kickstart totally unattended. I basically have the install unattended with PXE,TFTP,NFS,DHCP but .. I need to tweak the packages.
I do totally unattended ks installs all the time. What's your problem here? Maybe i can give you some hints.
-Michael
I have to press enter once at the start of the install to chose a lang.. I have the options in the ks.cfg but I still have to press enter ?
#System language lang en_US #Language modules to install langsupport en_SG --default=en_US #System keyboard keyboard us #System mouse mouse #Sytem timezone timezone America/New_York #Root password
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:23:12 +0100, Michael Stiller ms@2scale.net wrote:
Some other things to note.. I would like to have the kickstart totally unattended. I basically have the install unattended with PXE,TFTP,NFS,DHCP but .. I need to tweak the packages.
I do totally unattended ks installs all the time. What's your problem here? Maybe i can give you some hints.
-Michael
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 10:40 -0500, Matt Higgins wrote:
I have to press enter once at the start of the install to chose a lang.. I have the options in the ks.cfg but I still have to press enter ?
Hm, this is my ks.cfg:
#System language lang en_US.UTF-8 #Language modules to install langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 #System keyboard keyboard de-latin1-nodeadkeys #System mouse mouse none #Sytem timezone timezone --utc Europe/Berlin
-Michael
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