RE: RE: yum compatibility backward with rpm

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 22:40 -0700, Skahan, Vince wrote:
> Just in case anybody cares, a minimal FC6 using Jesse's list and just
> about today's updated rpms results in a initrd that is 383MB in size
> (before gzip) which boots just fine into a 512MB ramdisk.
> 
> When I get done stripping it down manually, I have a 138 MB image that
> still includes all 48 MB of kernel modules.  Based on past history given
> I only have to support some pretty basic hardware, I'm guessing I can
> get that minimal-list-of-rpms system to 110 MB or so before gzipping the
> initrd without too much pain.
> 
> Pretty cool, no need to go busybox or really embedded for a
> ramdisk-based router/firewall box.  Just throw 128MB ramdisk at the
> problem for a few bucks...

Care to share the results when you're done?  What does your manual
process involve?  Are you breaking dependencies?

/Brian/

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