[Rule-list] Of anacondas and garden snakes....

[Devon]

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Hi All,

I've been reading along and banging my head against the wall trying to 
create a cd image including some base packages and a modified installer.
Seems the anaconda documentation is a bit thin. :)

I think I finally figured it out.

I built a new bootable CD containing everything in the base install plus 
the packages that anaconda seems to insist on having available. I used 
rebuilt anaconda and anaconda-runtime packages, with modifications 
similar to those Forrest suggested in an earlier mail.

I've just installed it onto an old P-166 with 16 megs of ram. The disk is 
an old Seagate ST3630A (631MB) and I made a 128MB swap partition.

The install took just under a half hour, and booted without difficulty.
I'll try tomorrow with limiting it to 8MB ram.

According to the installer 151 packages were installed using 314MB.
(There are 250 rpm files available on the disk) It can be trimmed down 
more, but I wanted to get it working first.

Here's some of the post install info:

address@hidden devon]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         14000      12956       1044          0        216       5712
- -/+ buffers/cache:       7028       6972
Swap:       131032       1600     129432

address@hidden devon]$ df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               469488    205093    240155  47% /
none                      7000         0      7000   0% /dev/shm

rpm -Va shows no problems.

The list of installed rpms is available here:
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/rpmlist.txt

If anyone wants to play with it, I'll make the 295 MB iso available.

Hope this is something along the lines of what we are looking for?

- -D

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