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by **Brian Le** » Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:05:16

Hi, I want to make a minimum Linux distribution which is
compatible with recent version of RedHat Linux. The
size of minumum distribution shold be in 80M.

It's difficult to select rpm packages to be deleted.
Any helpful website? Or ideas?

- Brian,.

by **dbian..** » Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:25:30

> It's difficult to select rpm packages to be deleted.
> Any helpful website? Or ideas?

I'd suggest you to install a "normal" distribution, then
follow the "Linux-From-Scratch-HOWTO" and create your own
custom distribution.

Davide

by **Swif** » Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:25:41

> Hi, I want to make a minimum Linux distribution which is
> compatible with recent version of RedHat Linux. The
> size of minumum distribution shold be in 80M.
> It's difficult to select rpm packages to be deleted.
> Any helpful website? Or ideas?

The following list might help you:

setup
filesystem
basesystem
glibc-common
glibc
mktemp
termcap
libtermcap
bash
ncurses
ncurses-devel
info
binutils
bzip2
diffutils
fileutils
cpp
kernel-headers
glibc-devel
grep
gzip
make
sed
words
cracklib
cracklib-dicts
pwdb
tar
textutils
rootfiles
glib
gawk
mingetty
e2fsprogs
chkconfig
reiserfs-utils
console-tools
procps
vixie-cron
crontabs
zlib
modutils
popt
logrotate
sysklogd
which
psmisc
shadow-utils
db3
initscripts
kernel
pam
slang
util-linux
sh-utils
MAKEDEV
dev
libstdc++
groff
findutils
man
patch
bison
less
tcsh
gdbm
m4
texinfo
flex
file
db1
rpm
lilo
gpm
passwd
slocate
mount
man-pages
SysVInit
ip-utils
net-tools
joe
newt
dhcpcd
openssl
links
krb5-libs
cyrus-sasl
openldap
pine
gnupg
gcc
ncurses4
ncftp
db2
perl
sharutils
metamail
zip
unzip
tmpwatch
dialog
ed
audiofile
esound
mpg123
libogg
vorbis
aumix
psutils
libstdc++-devel
gcc-c++

I don't know if it's less or equal to 80 Megs, but if you install
those without the accompagniing documents (man rpm), you should
have less than 80 megs of disk-usage...

PS The abose list is the one I have used to build my own
system... It's a little larger now (*X, tcl, tetex, ...) but
that makes it > 80 megs too (400 megs at this moment).

Installing those rpm's is quite easy.
Run in a different distribution which supports RPM, mount your
partition wherein you want to install, and run, for each rpm:
~# rpm --root /mnt/part -ivh package.rpm

Note : package.rpm should be available in /mnt/part.

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