RHEL and X

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Sunday 04 April 2004 10:31 pm, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> We're considering RHEL as an option to run webhosting servers, but a
> correspondent told me he believed there was no way to install it
> without x.
>
> This would be a showstopper for us; we'd never use x to administer these
> remote systems, and we don't install unused services; we consider it a
> security issue.
>
> Do I have to install x when installing RHEL?

Of course not. Install what you want only. You may want to select a 'Custom 
Install" in the option to pick and choose whatever you want. Maybe what your 
correspondent did was just select something like a "Workstation Install", 
thus he/she got X wuthout selecting it.

> Can I create my own kickstart file as I always did with RHL previously?

Of course.

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
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