Headless Fedora?

[Bazooka Joe]

The problem w/ that is if you pick a package that requires x yum will
install x anyway.  All my servers I setup w/out x. It doesn't do
anything for a server besides take up resources. Even if you are in
init 3 it is still taking up space on the hd and undesirable progs are
on the system.

I deselect a lot of packages that I don't need - namely any package
that is for the desktop - other people start w/ the minimal install
then they yum in what they want.

Once you get it fedora will automatically set up inittab for run level
3 - then you know you don't have x or any progs that use x.

bazooka

On 6/28/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Steven Ringwald wrote:
>
> > Montana Quiring wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to setup a headless Fedora box (i.e. No X).
> > > Is there an install parameter or respin I can use to accomplish this,
> > > or should I not bother?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for your reply.
> >
> > When I installed a headless system, I chose the "customize now"
> > option for package selection, and then made sure to deselect all the
> > packages I could, making sure that yum got installed, and then used
> > yum/rpm to remove any straggling X packages/libraries that got
> > installed. If you have a system installed already, with X running,
> > just change /etc/inittab to start at runlevel 3 instead of 5. I can
> > send you more details on the latter, if that is your case.
>
> how different is that from just deselecting X and letting the
> dependency testing do the rest?
>
> rday
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