Minimal install of RHEL4 with NO X

Mike Robinson mrobinson at evault.com
Fri Oct 6 15:23:14 UTC 2006


Thanks, but

a) Damn Small Linux actually has a graphical interface. 
b) it needs to be RHEL as that's what work specifies.

To answer your question: The first disk in the RHEL install has an 
option to run memtest, I believe that the fedora core installer has the 
same option.

m.


Eric John wrote:
> I dont know, but Ive always assumed DSL/Damn Small Linux was text only 
> because of the size - supposedly around 50 meg or so.  I have the disk 
> somewhere email me
>
> Also, is there a way to test your RAM if you cant compile because your 
> RAM is bad
>
>
>
> */Mike Robinson <mrobinson at evault.com>/* wrote:
>
>     I assumed that choosing the minimal install would leave me just
>     enough
>     system to add what I needed, and indeed seemed the only method
>     that did
>     not through some dependency tree of doom add the near entirety of X,
>     gnome and kde packages to my install.
>
>     But alas, the minimal install left me with a broken system where sshd
>     would not start (unable to generate RSA keys), and rpm was missing
>     it's
>     libraries. But at least it didn't install X.
>
>     I'm using the latest RHEL4 iso's from RHN, and have a keen memory of
>     being able to install a server with no graphical components not so
>     long
>     ago. But it seems impossible at the moment.
>
>     Any advice?
>
>     m.
>
>
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