Just use a custom install and click twice on the X stuff to select & the
de-select it all.
I have a non-X server running.
On the other hand, it would be safer to keep the existing Celeron266 for
a firewall/router (it's more than sufficient) and use another (possibly
higher-powered) box for the server.
FWIW.
Monte Milanuk wrote:
>
> O.K. I am going to take the plunge. I am getting an ISDN line put in,
> and will get a terminal adapter ISDN modem. Since the local internet
> provider's ISDN account has an unlimited access plan, this box will
> probably be up and online a lot of the time. Currently I use Freesco
> 0.25 running from a 3.5" floppy to act as a firewall/router/dialup
> gateway on a spare Celeron266 w/ 64MB RAM. I would like to 'upgrade'
> this to an full blown intranet server/firewall/gateway running on a PII
> 400 w/ 128MB RAM, and about 24GB of hard drive space. I hope to have
> this box serving
> DHCP, DNS, Samba, NFS, xntp, mail, news, squid, etc., and maybe X
> (vnc). The one thing that this box really doesn't need is multimedia (
> sound, or graphics, etc). I would like to admin the box over the local
> network using Webmin.
>
> Now on to the main topic of this post: How the heck can I get LM 7.0 to
> install w/o X? I can make a boot disk for a text-mode network install,
> but the install program insists on adding the X Window system and
> KDE/Gnome, etc. I don't want/need them, so do I just have to put up w/
> this and remove them after the install? Also, would I be better off
> doing this sort of setup w/ LM 6.1 instead?
>
> Monte
>
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