Hi! Can I in FC6 do full installation as in FC4 for example. I have no internet connection, but have FC6 dvd. May be I missed something? Thanks for your help.
Artur G. Sibagatullin wrote:
Hi! Can I in FC6 do full installation as in FC4 for example. I have no internet connection, but have FC6 dvd. May be I missed something? Thanks for your help.
Yes you missed a few flamewars about the removal of this option ;-) Just tick everything (there is some button per top-level option IIRC that will tick all children?) it is a "quite full" installation.
-Andy
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:07:58AM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
Yes you missed a few flamewars about the removal of this option ;-) Just tick everything (there is some button per top-level option IIRC that will tick all children?) it is a "quite full" installation.
You have to right-click on each group then select the "all options" option. Very tedious (he says, itching to start another flamewar ;-).
Dave Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:07:58AM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
Yes you missed a few flamewars about the removal of this option ;-) Just tick everything (there is some button per top-level option IIRC that will tick all children?) it is a "quite full" installation.
You have to right-click on each group then select the "all options" option. Very tedious (he says, itching to start another flamewar ;-).
Thanks for the precision... well I was not the only person to see boxes that have plenty of resources for their intended use (384MB) drop to their knees and start allocating swap when it came time to upgrade the package set, sometimes taking 12 hours to complete an upgrade. It seems that the core reasons for that are difficult to fix politically and practically. So there is a small additional consideration to adding to the installed packages.
(BTW yum erase *-devel before upgrade will help in the case you don't really need the -devel packages)
-Andy
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:39:13 +0000 Dave Mitchell davem@iabyn.com wrote:
You have to right-click on each group then select the "all options" option. Very tedious (he says, itching to start another flamewar ;-).
Me too. In fact, let's start a new distribution! It would be identical to fedora, but have a button named: "Pretend I right clicked all groups and picked install all optional packages".
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:44:50 -0500, Tom Horsley tomhorsley@adelphia.net wrote:
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:39:13 +0000 Dave Mitchell davem@iabyn.com wrote:
You have to right-click on each group then select the "all options" option. Very tedious (he says, itching to start another flamewar ;-).
Me too. In fact, let's start a new distribution! It would be identical to fedora, but have a button named: "Pretend I right clicked all groups and picked install all optional packages".
I added a comment to the "everything" bugzilla (but it didn't reopen it) asking to be able to right click on the top 6 items to install all of the optional packages you could get in the installer. I don't think there is a good reason to not make installing all of the packages you are allowed to select easy.
Note that there are some significant things that are not in any standard or optional package, but are on the install iso(s). This includes the alternate selinux policies (Strict and MLS) and the tape drive utilities (mt-st). Perhaps another top level category for less commonly needed software could be created that would cover packages that don't cause conflicts and so wouldn't cause problems if people installed them.
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:39 +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
You have to right-click on each group then select the "all options" option. Very tedious (he says, itching to start another flamewar ;-).
While not wanting an "all" option, I got mightily sick of individually clicking on each package in a group, instead of being able to click on the first I wanted to change, hold down shift, then click on the last I wanted, and do a group in one go.
e.g. I wanted to add a batch of language support packages. I was clicking away for ages. I couldn't find any way of selecting more than one item at a time.
Some more user-friendly multiple-select would be a good idea.