Performing a test install of CentOS 5, I no longer have the capability of requesting a minimal install as their was in CentOS 4. Is there any possibility this could added back in before final release?
Thank you,
Brett
Once upon a time Saturday 31 March 2007, Brett Serkez wrote:
Performing a test install of CentOS 5, I no longer have the capability of requesting a minimal install as their was in CentOS 4. Is there any possibility this could added back in before final release?
Thank you,
Brett
to do a minimal install unselect things. CentOS follows upstream and this is the route upstream has taken.
Dennis
to do a minimal install unselect things. CentOS follows upstream and this is the route upstream has taken.
Dennis
dennis
Hehehe that's funny...
Because of dependency issues, I think there will always be something you do not really want on the machine put there during the GUI or text gui install.
- rh
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hi,
R Lists06 wrote:
Because of dependency issues, I think there will always be something you do not really want on the machine put there during the GUI or text gui install.
This makes absolutely no sense to me, what are you trying to say ?
- KB
Speaking of small installs. Will there be a CentOS 5 Server single-CD installer?
Morten Torstensen wrote:
Speaking of small installs. Will there be a CentOS 5 Server single-CD installer?
There can be, if people ask for it !
- KB
On 4/1/07, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
There can be, if people ask for it !
Given that this seems to be a very popular item, I've started a tracking bug for it here.
Server related package requests can be put here.
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1880
On 4/1/07, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
There can be, if people ask for it !
Given that this seems to be a very popular item, I've started a tracking bug for it here.
Server related package requests can be put here.
This is great, thank you!
I've generally found that using this check box with CentOS 4 can cut the install by a couple of hundred megabytes, down to ~700MB. WIth CentOS 5, I specified customize now and unselected everything I could, the install was about 1 Gig, about the same as CentOS 4 without the 'minimal' install check box and everything unchecked.
I do believe this check box was of value and would be with CentOS 5.
Brett
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 12:26 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
Once upon a time Saturday 31 March 2007, Brett Serkez wrote:
Performing a test install of CentOS 5, I no longer have the capability of requesting a minimal install as their was in CentOS 4. Is there any possibility this could added back in before final release?
to do a minimal install unselect things. CentOS follows upstream and this is the route upstream has taken.
Right ... however, CentOS does have a built in minimal install available (though, not specifically selectable).
In the category (some call it task) selection screen, there are some options like "Desktop - Gnome", "Desktop - KDE", "Server", and "Server - GUI" ... if you just unselect all those options, you will get what is a minimal install with just Text based Internet and a minimal set of packages.
If you want to get less of an install than that (not likely) ... you can use the "Customize-Now" option at the bottom of the Category / Task selection screen and then remove all checked options. The "all unchecked" install is barely functional (it has sshd and dhcp-client and a very minimal set of packages).
So to get a fairly minimal install set easily ... just uncheck all options on the Category / Task selection screen.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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