CentOS - Aug 2009 - Help Slim Down Centos Install

Hello Everyone, 

I was wondering does anyone know how I can slim down Centos install,
what I mean by slim down is whenever I install Centos with nothing but
xen. I have all type stuff that is not needed like bluetooth and etc.
This is a server, so I know that bluetooth is not need but I don't have
any other menus to remove software when install from cd. So what would
be the best way to slim this server down to only need the bare to run
xen?

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Chris Andrews<khris4 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I was wondering does anyone know how I can slim down Centos install,
> what I mean by slim down is whenever I install Centos with nothing but
> xen. I have all type stuff that is not needed like bluetooth and etc.
> This is a server, so I know that bluetooth is not need but I don't have
> any other menus to remove software when install from cd. So what would
> be the best way to slim this server down to only need the bare to run
> xen?
>
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When you install CentOS in the software section there is a customize
now radio button, choose that option and enable/disable whichever
package you want.

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Chris Andrews wrote:
> Hello Everyone, 
> 
> I was wondering does anyone know how I can slim down Centos install,
> what I mean by slim down is whenever I install Centos with nothing but
> xen. I have all type stuff that is not needed like bluetooth and etc.
> This is a server, so I know that bluetooth is not need but I don't have
> any other menus to remove software when install from cd. So what would
> be the best way to slim this server down to only need the bare to run
> xen? 
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/

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From: Chris Andrews <khris4 at gmail.com>
> I was wondering does anyone know how I can slim down Centos install,
> what I mean by slim down is whenever I install Centos with nothing but
> xen. I have all type stuff that is not needed like bluetooth and etc.
> This is a server, so I know that bluetooth is not need but I don't have
> any other menus to remove software when install from cd. So what would
> be the best way to slim this server down to only need the bare to run
> xen? 
I think you will have to use a kickstart file..

 
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-howuse.html

See the 'services' and '%packages' sections of the file...
Example:

  services
--enabled=acpid,anacron,auditd,cpuspeed,crond,gpm,haldaemon,irqbalance,
kudzu,lm_sensors,messagebus,microcode_ctl,netfs,network,ntpd,portmap,readahead_e
arly,sendmail,smartd,sshd,syslog,sysstat,xinetd --disabled=cups,apmd,atd,autofs,
avahi-daemon,bluetooth,firstboot,hidd,ip6tables,isdn,mcstrans,pcscd,restorecond,
xfs,yum-updatesd

And:

  %packages
  @base
  yum-fastestmirror
  yum-priorities
  yum-utils
  ...

If you remove @base, you will have to list all the mandatory packages...

JD