Re: Rebuilding minimal install iso RHEL 4 (U1)

[Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex milivojevic org>]

Quoting Michael Stiller <ms 2scale net>:

> I just tried that packages --nobase switch on RHEL 4.0 U2 and it breaks.
> The packages-installation screen looks very strange (e.g. -3 packages to
> go etc.) See below. If you install with %packages only you'll end with
> about 284 packages using 688Mb. No comment on that.

Strange.  I did many installations using '--nobase', and it always worked
perfectly.  I do remember one version of Anaconda had a bug where it 
miscounted
how many packages are installed/pending (resulting in negative values), but it
was only cosmetic thing (and I think the bug was fixed some time ago).  Don't
remember if that version of Anaconda was part of RHEL or Fedora Core
distribution.

One other thing, for minimalistic installations, you probably also want to use
"skipx" and "text" options.  Skipx will skip probing for correct X11
configuration (you are not going to have GUI with minimalistic install 
anyhow).
Text will trigger text-based installation (saves a bit of time needed for X
server to start, and probably some unneeded hardware probing too).

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