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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
