On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 22:20 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:15 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 14:56 -0600, Anton Solovyev wrote: > > > For removing the "Install Everything" option from Fedora Core 8 installation. > > > > > > The disappearance of the "disable iptabes" and "disable selinux" options counts > > > as a minor annoyance, I guess. But thanks for that too! > > ---- > > Install 'everything' was removed on FC6 installer if I recall correctly. > > > > The issue was that it was too difficult to manage across the various > > packages, hardware types and still 'everything' isn't really everything > > since the 'everything' you are seeing is the DVD and there is an even > > bigger 'Everything' on the mirrors which goes well beyond what is on the > > DVD. > > > > I believe that you can select all packages within each group which makes > > it relatively simple to get that big honking install that you crave. > > > > And for what it's worth...you are not alone with your desire to have > > that big honking 'everything' install...right Claude? > > Remember the row we had about a year ago on the missing "Install > Everything" option? Myself, I'd much rather get as much installed during > the initial install, then to have to yum what I want, post install. Ric ---- I was referring to exactly that with my hat tip to Claude... I'm at the stage now where I have my own mirrors at work and I just kickstart install the same suite on all computers and adjust from there if necessary. Too much just weighs down each and every update. I do appreciate that with dial-up, the experience does change. Craig
