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.
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