RE: Building a system up from scratch

["patrick" <patrick hci utah edu>]

I'm not certain what your problem is with using the CD.  You can
use the CD to bootup into the installation program and control all
aspects of your installation, knowing precisely what is installing,
etc.  Just don't select the full install option.  Partition your disk
with either the wizard or whatever it is called or use fdisk.  Then
choose to determine what gets installed, app by app, lib by lib
rather than selecting install everything.

patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: David Spencer [mailto:DWSPENCE UK oracle com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 8:36 AM
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: Building a system up from scratch


I'd like to build a Red Hat 6 system up from the ground - I have
[...]
Any advice on how to proceed?  Does anyone know of any notes out there?
I've looked through the howtos but not found anything obvious.

Yes, I know I could bung in the CD and hit 'Install' but I'd like to know
more fully what's going on and have full control over exactly what is there.
[...]

I'm not that bothered about compiling everything that I load up on the
box; I might tackle that one later.  For now I just want to build the
system up file-by-file (preferably with RPM of course).