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I am trying to create a custom ks.cfg file with redhat AS 3.0. I have a certain package list I would like to install so we have just the packages we need. The issue is in the file it show groups so I have removed them and added my list of packages as I would when useing this in AS 2.1 but for some reason the install is still to big almost like its grabbing packages I didn't add to the list. Here is a copy of the file before I made changes and after I made changes. I would appreciate it if someone would let me know if its a bug in RH AS 3.0 or if I am doing this wrong.

Before

install
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
mouse none
xconfig --card "ATI Mach64" --videoram 8192 --hsync 31.5-37.9 --vsync 50-70 --resolution 800x600 --depth 24
network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 10.24.74.25 --netmask 255.255.255.192 --gateway 10.24.74.3 --hostname U19U7
.tomax.com
network --device eth1 --bootproto static --ip 10.24.75.41 --netmask 255.255.255.224 --gateway 10.24.74.3 --hostname U19U7
.tomax.com
rootpw --iscrypted $1$zpPr/suu$FK.Hcj9n87CtBcBLN79UO.
firewall --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
timezone America/Boise
bootloader --location=mbr --append console=ttyS1
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
#clearpart --all
#part / --fstype ext3 --size=1000 --ondisk=sda --asprimary
#part swap --size=8192 --ondisk=sda --asprimary
#part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size=1000 --ondisk=sda
#part /var --fstype ext3 --size=250 --ondisk=sda
#part /u02 --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sdb --asprimary
#part /u01 --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sda --asprimary

%packages
@ dialup
@ everything
@ compat-arch-support
kernel-smp
kernel
grub

%post


After

#Generated by Kickstart Configurator

#System language
lang en_US
#Language modules to install
langsupport --default=en_US
#System keyboard
keyboard us
#System mouse
mouse generic3ps/2
#Sytem timezone
timezone America/Boise
#Root password
rootpw welcome
#Reboot after installation
reboot
#Use text mode install
text
#Use interactive kickstart installation method
interactive
#Install Red Hat Linux instead of upgrade
install
#Use CDROM installation media
cdrom
#System bootloader configuration
bootloader --location=mbr
#Clear the Master Boot Record
zerombr yes
#Partition clearing information
clearpart --all --initlabel
#Disk partitioning information
part / --fstype ext3 --size 1000 --asprimary --ondisk sda
part swap --size 8192 --asprimary --ondisk sda
part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size 1000 --ondisk sda
part /var --fstype ext3 --size 250 --ondisk sda
part /u01 --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow --asprimary --ondisk sda
part /u02 --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow --asprimary --ondisk sdb
#System authorization infomation
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
#Firewall configuration
firewall --disabled
#XWindows configuration information
xconfig --depth=8 --resolution=800x600 --defaultdesktop=GNOME
#Package install information

%packages
glibc-headers
man
basesystem
pam
telnet
openmotif-devel
glibc
libaio-devel
chkfontpath
sysstat
unzip
vnc
XFree86-base-fonts
crontabs
tcl
openssh
coreutils
gdbm
glib-devel
cpp
at
bash
pdksh
compat-gcc-c++
XFree86-libs
tcp_wrappers
chkconfig
compat-glibc
net-tools
gnome-libs
lsof
rootfiles
logrotate
iputils
zip
rsh
XFree86-tools
tcpdump
xinitrc
mount
cpio
compat-db
grub
telnet-server
glibc-kernheaders
glibc-profile
net-snmp-utils
kernel-utils
compat-libstdc++-devel
net-snmp
glibc-devel
ftp
setarch
libgcc
rsh-server
man-pages
openmotif
XFree86
syslinux
vnc-server
filesystem
tar
autofs
grep
gcc
openssh-server
kudzu
gdbm-devel
make
binutils
perl
gzip
bind-utils
glibc-utils
openmotif21
XFree86-devel
glib
passwd
gdb
glibc-common
libaio
SysVinit
util-linux
libstdc++
setserial
nfs-utils
switchdesk
portmap
XFree86-twm
libstdc++-devel
gcc-c++
xterm
initscripts
traceroute
libtool
iproute
compat-libstdc++
sed
gnome-libs-devel
xinetd
dev86
XFree86-font-utils
compat-gcc
bzip2
openssh-clients
raidtools
which
rpm
lockdev

%post

Thanks for your time

You have a lot of packages listed in the updated copy of the cfg file. Maybe they just take up a lot of space. I rarely install systems that don't have @everything since typically disk space is not an issue for me, especially if it is only a few GB.

The only advice I can offer is to do the install manually and select the packages you want. Once the install is complete you can login and look at /root/anaconda-ks.cfg. This is basically a kickstart file generated from the interactive install. I use this to base my kickstart files when a new version or feature comes out (it was really helpful to setup LVM on RAID with kickstart). There are definitely differences between the 2.1 and 3.0 %packages section, but I don't know what they are.

Thanks for the reply and I understand what your saying about an everything install. The bad part to that is we use these servers in a datacenter for our customers and for security reasons and such we have a come up with a small standard install so we know exactly how each server is going to ack and what will be running on it. I have look at the default anaconda-ks.cfg file the bad part is unlike 2.1 where it listed the packages in the %package part redhat 3.0 just shows groups. So thank you for your time but still looking for a solution if anyone has one.