On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:14 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > lostson wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 16:28 -0700, Craig White wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 07:46 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > >>> ervin wrote: > >>>> Just installed FC 7 ... works well on my Desktop however I need a set > >>>> of minimal installs .... in other distributions it's a choice in the > >>>> install process .... maybe I miss something here ... > >>>> > >>>> Where do I find the easy way through to a min install?? > >>> > >>> I was thinking on this very issue this am, while out for my post-dawn > >>> stroll. > >>> > >>> I sometimes want to build an appliance, typically a server with one > >>> fuction, maybe a backup server, a print server, a firewall, or just a > >>> basic Linux system to help rescue a broken Windows. > >>> > > <snip> > > > > Would Revisor possibly work for you for something like this. Create > > your own iso with revisor, you could make it very minimal with > > everything you want. > > I presume you're speaking to me? > > debian does it easily, with no frigging around at all. And, if I want > openvpn, dar, bacula, amanda. backuppc, Xephyr, or Bozotic, it's just an > apt-get away. As does Fedora. I always do text based installs (seem to me to be faster), and when I get to the package install list, I just hit the space bar to un-check everything I don't want. If you un-check everything, you get about the same as if you'd kickstarted with @base. Then yum allows me to install or groupinstall anything I want out of the Fedora world. Easy. No need to use Debian. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, RHCI, CNE, MCSE, MCT Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?
