'everything' install option in FC5test1

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Sat Nov 26 16:02:59 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 10:44 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:36:55AM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > How about making Anaconda always only do a minimal install, and make
> > > firstboot have the option to install other things if you want 'em? :)
> > Because that gets into non-fun questions about whether or not to install
> > X and a desktop as part of "minimal".  And my answer definitely differs
> > from that of a number of people :)
> 
> True. Okay, so, minimal + the minimum X required to install firstboot with a
> package chooser. With an option to do *just* minimal for experts. :)

There are also other problems in that CD installs become extremely
annoying as you have to keep switching CDs longer.  Anyway, we've been
down this road of discussion before and it's just not something that
makes sense to me right now and so it's not going to be done ;-)

Jeremy




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