[CentOS] wget not in minimal install - solved.

Tue May 8 00:47:56 UTC 2007
Paul Norton <paul at neoverve.com>

MrKiwi wrote:

>> I used to always do a minimal install with v4.4, and wget (and other 
>> tools) was included.
>> With v5 if i untick *everything* in the installation (incl "base") so 
>> that i can install from 1 cd, wget is not included.
>> I couldn't make sense of any of the xml or xml.gz files on the 
>> installation cd. (/dev/cdrom/repodata/*), although they do mention 
>> wget as 'default' rather than 'mandatory' in one of the files.
>> Which option should i tick to get wget? or should i just use a 
>> kickstart install and throw
>> yum -y install wget dos2unix
>> in the postinstall section?
>>
> Sorry - i missed the wget and dos2unix in the options of 'base' - need 
> my eyes tested :(
> 
> As a follow up question - would both these tools be in the 
> 1-cd-server-install iso when it gets built? 

Until the server-cd is released, I would suggest that you do a text 
install and un-check every package option.

-- 
Paul Norton
System Administrator
Neoverve