At 2:16 PM -0800 3/27/06, K. Richard Pixley wrote: >...And what's the new procedure? > >I mean, one of the reasons I use a full distribution like fedora is that I >don't want to run around with cd's all the time. I want everything >available on my development machine immediately and I'm perfectly fine >with spending a measly 6-20gig to hold it. Those extra gigabytes are much >cheaper than my every needing to hunt down cd's so that I can (re)install >some obscure tidbit that I might suddenly need in 6 months. Or worse, >doing it every 10 minutes for the first few weeks of using the >installation. > >I can understand wanting a minimal install for an installation for an >embedded or vertical app, but that's no reason to eliminate the fat >install. Surely there must be an alternative. Try Paul Howarth's http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages and at least you won't need the CDs or a fast Internet connection to do yum installs. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
