Filipe Brandenburger wrote on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:44:47 -0400: > why would you want to install > CentOS without the "base" packages? because it gives you more control over really unnecessary stuff, I don't need any CD-burning and other multimedia stuff on a webserver for instance. > All machines that I've seen that have been installed with --nobase are > crippled. Some programs and mainly scripts just don't work, because > they need to run some utility that is not installed. Works just perfectly for me. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com