Re: Next release of RedHat Installer

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:14:07AM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Erik Troan <ewt redhat com> writes:
> 
> > 	1) The package list (we ship a *ton* of packages). This has to be
> > 	   held in RAM as we haven't repartitioned the disk yet.
> > 
> > 	2) The RPM transaction
> > 
> > 	3) The GUI
> 
> What I would like to see is a lightweight option with a much smaller
> package list suitable for a networked machine without X, games, tons
> of user-space apps, but with networking, routing, firewall, ssh,
> etc. This kind of box will never be used by a newbie, and an
> experienced user will be able to add what he/she wants with rpm -i
> after installation.
> 
> The installer can be GUI-less as well, if that helps.
> 
> -- 
We have installed a bare bones system with roughly the features you
indicate in a littls over 300M on the disk, I don't know how that would
translate in to the size of the package list. However I don't think it
has a C OR C++ compiler.
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