Re: [MLUG] bare minimum fedora 7 install

[Jack Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

You could use OpenSUSE. They have a minimal (server) install option
available in the installer. SUSE uses RPMs too, and it appears that SUSE
is about as well-supported in the third-party RPM department as RHEL is
and probably more than Fedora. 

But then you have to deal with rug and such instead of yum or just use
the YaST GUI or ncurses config tools to do package management. And then
there's the whole Novell-MS deal that does NOT involve OpenSUSE, but you
still would take ribbing from buddies and in any online situation for
using it. 

Jack

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 08:39 -0500, nowlind wrote:
> I know that Ubuntu and Debian are good distos but I am just stuck on 
> rpms.  I know it is a hang up of mine.
> 
> Daniel Nowlin
> DataCenter
> 
> 
> 
> shawn parker wrote:
> > there is a base group package set in fedora 7 as well, but if you try
> > to install just that it breaks. at least the last time i did it.
> >
> > the thing is, though, that ubuntu and debian are quick and easy to
> > install and provide me with a functional bare-bones system out of the
> > box. i don't need to "hack" the installer to make it work.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > On 6/14/07, Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, shawn parker wrote:
> >>
> >> > this is why i dislike fedora, and even red hat, now. they removed the
> >> > one feature that i always used, the "minimal install" option. i won't
> >> > use them outside of work.
> >> >
> >> > now, you _have_ to install a lot of bloat into the system unless you
> >> > want to spend hours customizing.
> >> >
> >> > my suggestion, ubuntu server or debian.
> >>
> >> Looking on the Centos5 distro I've got here, there's still a 'Base'
> >> group, but it's marked as not being user visible.  I bet that you could
> >> hack it into a kickstart file on a floppy or USB stick and get the same
> >> results, though.
> >>
> >> %packages
> >> @base
> >>
> >>
> >> --dlloyd
> >>
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