FC4 for servers

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Feb 6 04:40:12 UTC 2005


> No, definitely not. Using another tool in the %post section to remove
> packages is (other than by automation) no different at all from
> installing a minimal install via kickstart and then running a simple
> script to use yum or rpm to remove the packages. You have not used
> *kickstart* to select the packages... you have accepted whatever
> kickstart would give you and then trimmed "manually."

You mean i've taken a diverse set of tools and adequately accomplished
the task you suggested? Sounds like the right way to me :)


> You are no farther ahead than we. Note, for example, that you will need
> the full 570MB of space available for this install, even if you then
> trim it down to 200MB. You could not install onto a 256MB flash card,
> for example, or even onto a 512MB flash card.


I never claimed I was farther ahead - you said it was impossible, I
disagreed.  :)



> Care to try again? You have no idea how happy I'd be if you succeed, but
> sadly (AFAIAC) your first attempt is most definitely not a success.

If you really want to try again - all you need to do is add an
installclass to  anaconda. Go read up on the installclasses - I think
you'll see that's all that is necessary.

-sv





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