CentOS Server Installation

[Digimer]

On 10/21/2012 02:45 PM, William Weaver wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Just joined the group Friday, and looking forward to the first F2F meeting.
> 
> I wanted to ask a question about a CentOS install I'm doing right now. I've
> been having difficulty finding an install of CentOS 6.3 that will allow me
> to install just the server applications without X11 that can be installed
> from USB. I decided that instead I'd just put the live CD on USB and
> install that, then strip out the bloat. Not ideal but it'll have to do.
> 
> So I'm stripping out stuff that I know isn't needing, and starting with yum
> groups that I know aren't necessary. First time I did this I went over
> zealous and nixed a bit to much, causing the box to not be able to boot
> into run level 3 anymore. This time I'm working a little more piece by
> piece.
> 
> <tldr>
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had a CentOS server install or a spare box/vm
> they could put a fresh one on, so that I could get both the grouplist and
> package list off of it. It won't be exactly what I end up with but it would
> be a good frame of reference.
> 
> If this doesn't work I may just have to try to do a network install (I
> don't have CD Drives on any of my PC's. I don't like the waste and most
> things are comfortable with a usb install.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Will

I do a "minimal" install. It is *super* minimal; no man pages, no tar,
nada. Then I install the packages I want. All my production CentOS
machines are built like this.

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