Minimal Install of RHEL 4

[Louis Guillaume]

Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
> you dont need to uncheck all options just select minimal installation
> from the packages list.. that is still half a GB..pretty bloated huh
> 

Hm. Didn't see this option. I remember it being there years ago (last 
time I used RedHat) but now you have to pick from a set of package 
categories. If you leave all blank, what's left is > 1GB.

Where exactly is that option? Do I have to do something special? I'm 
using the curses-based installer from the iso images in redhat.com.

Louis


> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 00:01 -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm trying to do a *minimal* install of RedHat Linux. i.e. kernel, 
>>shells, standard Unix userland utils, mailer, supporting libs etc. 
>>Similar to what you'd get from installing, say NetBSD with just the base 
>>and etc sets. No X, no fancy stuff.
>>
>>But after un-checking all the options in the installer, I end up with a 
>>list of packages a mile long, using > 1GB of disk.
>>
>>What gives? Is the base RedHat install really this bloated?
>>
>>Louis
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