| Re: Common Practice Question (noob) [message #2384 is a reply to message #2377] |
Sun, 02 April 2006 10:11   |
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I guess my first question is, how different is a minimal VPS from a minimal install from CD? What else other then yum and wget are missing?
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-minimal is just bare bones needed to start and run the VPS. You can see the actual list of packages (not including their dependencies as they are calculated run-time) in /vz/template/OSNAME/OSVERSION/OSARCH/config/minimal.list file; or just run rpm -qa inside a VPS to see what's in there.
Minimal is what it is -- minimal. One possible use of it is to create your own OS template flavors based on this one.
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does anyone have a procedure that they currently use to take a minimal VPS to make it function as if it was a minimal cd install?
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If you want a VPS to contains the same list of packages as minimal cd install, just create this list (say, using rpm -qa --qf "%{name}" in a freshly installed system). Then you can take minimal.list as a base and add the missing packages to it, saving the result to, say, min_cd.list. Finally, run vzpkgcache OSNAME-OSVERSION-OSARCH-min_cd to create the actual template cache.
So, basically, you can modify all those .list files to create the OS template cache you like/need. 
Kir Kolyshkin
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