Re: rhel dvds

[Greg Swift <greg netops gvtc com>]

nathan r. hruby wrote:

> 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.... :)

I tried playing w/ the kickstart file, but like i said before, got 
frustrated, and due to other fires i've just never gotten back to it.

and yeah.. lsb is a nice concept i agree... but yeah... can't get rid of 
that easily w/o kickstart...

now if you do a minimal kickstart file, or have some recommended 
resources, I would be very interested and thankful.  I will probably get 
around to it one of these days anyways.. just have a lot of projects 
right now, and that hasnt made it very high up on the list as of yet.

thanks

-greg