Re: rhel dvds

["nathan r. hruby" <nhruby uga edu>]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Greg Swift wrote:
> > Also I highly recommend kickstart over multi-cd installs.
> Thanks!  I have considered the kickstart approach, but got frustrated with 
> the dependencies and since most of my boxes are utilized for different 
> purposes, I usually do a minimal install (usually requires just disk1&2), and 
> then use up2date to add anything else I need.  Unfortunately minimal is not 
> nearly the minimal it used to be.  I get the fact that they want to provide a 
> "standard" set of installed apps across all systems, but I miss "select 
> individual packages".  The fact that CUPS is a requirement in a minimal 
> install for a server is preposterous IMHO.

I do the same thing, and kickstarts are still handier.  The only
requirement is the packages be available somewhere in a format the
installer likes (FTP/HTTP/NFS) and a kickstart file.  You can elect to PXE
boot or simply boot cd with the right networking info in the boot line to
get to the install packages, etc...

FWIW, CUPS is a requirement because redhat-lsb is in Core, and that
package requires /usr/sbin/lpr, which is satisfied by the CUPS package in
RHEL3.  If you don't want cups, don't install redhat-lsb (which is easy
when you're kickstarting.... :)

HTH,

-n
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