[TriLUG] Minimal Red Hat Install

[David McDowell]

You can uncheck base in 5.x if you choose custom options.

On 12/4/09, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> But even the minimal install option from the CD installs things like
> ISDN4 and Bluez, and cups, and a host of other things mostly due to
> LSB-base  requirements.   Which is what I would presume the --no-base
> option listed in the kickstart email was trying to eliminate.  But
> that's a guess.
>
> Matt P.
>
> On Dec 4, 2009, at 1:34 PM, David McDowell wrote:
>
>> If you mean 4.x you have a minimal checkbox available in the GUI
>> installer
>> (can't recall if the TUI has one).
>>
>> If you mean 5.x there is no minimal option in the TUI and in the GUI
>> you
>> just deselect all and choose to something like customize options now
>> and
>> continue to deselect all items in each category.  I did this
>> successfully
>> using only CD 1 of 6 for 5.4 just a couple days ago.  It is very
>> minimal.
>> Things like mlocate aren't even included... but hey, that's what yum
>> is
>> for.  SELinux is enabled by default, no GUI option to select
>> otherwise.  I
>> think this is also true for iptables.
>>
>> David McDowell
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Which RH version?
>>>
>>> -Carl
>>>
>>> On 12/4/09, Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org> wrote:
>>>> Gang:
>>>>
>>>> Can any of you gurus out there help me understand how to do a
>>>> minimal
>>>> Red Hat install? It used to be you could select and deselect
>>>> packages,
>>>> but now it seems that the most basic group of packages is woefully
>>>> bloated.
>>>>
>>>> -T
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