<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Ben,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">If you are installing a server and want a bare minimum of packages installed, then I suggest you take a look into Kickstart, ks.cfg. As you do not need GUI for servers, this is a better route as most Distributions available online has some kind of GUI installed or it might not have the scalability or full support from its community.</span> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">With ks.cfg, you can install only the things you need or want. Yes, you will be able to install more packages when required. I have not used kickstart with debian based Linux, but it works well with Redhat / Fedora / CentOS. With these major Linux distributions, you can get a lot of help from their communities as to how to tweak your kickstart file (ks.cfg) to a very small foot print.</span> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">One of the many examples online:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.owlriver.com/tips/pxe-install/FNAL_ks.cfg">http://www.owlriver.com/tips/pxe-install/FNAL_ks.cfg</a></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Hope this helps.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">-GGR</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">--</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Rajiv G Gunja</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Blog: </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" href="http://ossrocks.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://ossrocks.blogspot.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 January 2010 19:52, Ben W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bigmojo74@gmail.com" target="_blank">bigmojo74@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div><div>Relatively simple question here, I'm looking for as light of weight - and current - distro as I can find for a server. I'm only realy familiar with Debian variants and am thinking of building off a base install, but I'm curious if there's anything anyone else would suggest?</div>
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<div>*By lightweight I realy only need to be able to get onto a network out of the box, I'd prefer to build from as little as possible than sift through services and cut out what I don't need. They'll be the basis for a woefuly underpowered processing cluster, if anyone has any additional input on that.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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