Minimal Install of RHEL 4

Digvijoy Chatterjee digvijoy_chatterjee at infosys.com
Wed Jul 20 09:41:18 UTC 2005


you dont need to uncheck all options just select minimal installation
from the packages list.. that is still half a GB..pretty bloated huh

Digz
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 00:01 -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to do a *minimal* install of RedHat Linux. i.e. kernel, 
> shells, standard Unix userland utils, mailer, supporting libs etc. 
> Similar to what you'd get from installing, say NetBSD with just the base 
> and etc sets. No X, no fancy stuff.
> 
> But after un-checking all the options in the installer, I end up with a 
> list of packages a mile long, using > 1GB of disk.
> 
> What gives? Is the base RedHat install really this bloated?
> 
> Louis
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