Minimal Install Option

Michael Fulbright msf at redhat.com
Thu Aug 21 15:03:31 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 01:19, Jef Spaleta wrote:

> Wouldn't it be great if anaconda had exactly the right pre-defined
> settings for every person's personal tastes as to what a "minimal"
> install means.  

You can get anaconda to use your own custom comps.xml file to define the
components in the distribution. A minimal install is the 'Base'
component for recent releases, so just adjust it to fit your needs. Of
course you'll need to make sure you keep enough in it so things like the
initscripts can work, if you choose to keep them around. 

Several methods will work, just put your new comps.xml:

 - on an updates disk and boot with:

       linux updates

 - in the /tmp/updates directory of the installer boot initrd.

 - in a directory called RHupdates under the top of an NFS tree

 - in the directory RedHat/base for FTP/HTTP/NFS/CDROM

 - in the file updates.img for NFSISO/HD/FTP/HTTP/CDROM

The is documentation in the anaconda sources for some of the different
ways you can update the anaconda sources and data files.

Michael Fulbright
msf at redhat.com





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