Re: Rebuilding minimal install iso RHEL 4 (U1)

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:32:12AM -0400, Francis Swasey wrote:
> On 10/6/05 2:08 AM, Michael Stiller wrote:
> >I think all that packages are still addable and don't need to be
> >in a "minimal" installation set. E.g. if you prefer nano, install it.
> >If you need headless support, install mgetty etc. 
> >But it should be removed from the minimal install.
> 
> I believe a minimal install should assume it is headless...

Bad assumption - it could have a "head" on a KVM.  However, minimal
should exclude kde, gnome, etc.

> I believe it should assume that I will be using ntp to keep time in sync 
>  (instead of forcing me to install that)

Also bad assumption.  Also easy to add in a kickstart script.

> Basically... I use the minimal install, but I agree that the person who 
> designed the minimal install didn't design it for my environment.

Basically a minimal install should be what you need to boot and run most
standard utilities and make it easy to select individual packages or
grouips on top of that via kickstart.

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