Just want to say thanks for the responses, guys. This will help and makes me feel a bit more comfortable about how I'm starting out. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:32 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Suggestions on initial CentOS 4.3 Install packages Phillips, Tod wrote: > My apologies with the HTML encoding on the original post...I'll try > not to do that again. you are more likely to get people's attention by keeping it non-html fluff :) > > What I'd like to do is get some advice from the community on a good > initial setup for my system by listing out some of the things I hope > to > do: everything you want done, can be and will easily be done on 1 machine, i would recommend you do a minimum install, then use yum to install packages are you need to - you dont need everything up front as you start coding / using the machine. Install as you go along - it will give you a better understanding of what packages are available and what depends on what. Enjoy Linux! - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos