A little birdy told me that Jim Perrin said: ] On 5/1/07, Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com> wrote: ] > I realize that the @everything packages option is now gone in CentOS 5.0 ] > (ix86 and x86_64), but my experiments to date don't show how to ] > practically simulate the same effect (and I have a good reason for doing ] > so). I want all packages, all languages. If one installs from CD, and ] > selects all packages and options, the resulting anaconda-ks.cfg file does ] > not have a complete package list. ] ] Since you can now add additional repositories at install time, how do ] you define 'everything' install? i, for one, would have been satisfied with an: "everything from the Base respository" option... which would have included all the packages from the Base repo... basically, the what i wanted fulfilled was something approaching the same "final product" as "Everything" from the 4.x series installer... B. Karhan simon at pop.psu.edu PRI/SSRI Unix Administrator