Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:35 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
I have suggested this before, only much more hard'core'. The "true
minimum' needed to initiate an installation is a relatively small
packageset that does not require X or a Desktop Environment, in fact I
proposed to precook that minimum into a tarball and poop it onto your
HDD in one shot, boot into that and bring in what you need in a < 1
minute install action.
Put another way, no playing favourites, blow Gnome into Extras too, turn
the actual 'core' into something that is good for Firewalls, routers,
server duties AND the basis of a Desktop box.
The Centos guys have re-rolled a single-CD server install which
is very handy. Fedora could do a similar version and come up
with a scheme to pick one of a set of package lists that yum
could then install to get a system configured for any other purpose.
Yeah, I was thinkning something like that could be done.
Debian has a similar option, don´t they? Only without a groOvy
graphical install interface like anaconda.
It would install on the very basics, and then you would choose what
to install from the repos...right?
And, in that way, I could DL and install only KDE, without getting the
default
Gnome, too, right?
I think that´s a great idea!
BTW, I am beginning to understand the concept of moving KDE to extras,
and, after all, it doesn´t sound like it would do any harm.
Nonetheless, the option of a FC install W/O gnome sure appeals to me, too.
tony
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