On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, civileme wrote:
- On Monday 22 January 2001 14:14, you wrote:
- > I recently installed Mandrake 7.2. All essential services were back
- > up in a couple of hours (despite forgetting to backup my named data
- > files :-(. Even postfix is similar enough to sendmail that it only
- > held me up for a few minutes. As a server everything is working OK.
- >
- > However (you knew that was coming :-), there were/are some small
- > problems:
- >
- > I have 2G each for /, /usr, /var, /usr/local, and about 20G for /home
- > The installation damn near filled the /usr partition. Even after
- > deleting several documentation packages I am still at 90%!
- >
- > The patch, bison, flex, and yacc commands are missing. I would
- > appreciate if someone could tell me which RPM packages these essential
- > tools are stored. How the hell could anyone leave them out?
- >
- > Some of the fonts in kde were _terrible_. The menus and some
- > applications looked absolutely ghastly. I was able to fix most of
- > this by switching Helvetica to ISO 8859-1.
- >
- > The Mandrake Web page advises I use MandrakeUpdate to update packages
- > but the program was not installed by default.
-
- Ummm, I assume you selected HIGH security. Update is not accessible from
- DrakConf in such a case.
No. I selected MEDIUM security. I'd read some "horror stories" about
the HIGH setting on Mandrake based servers so I picked what looked
like the best compromise. I've gotten pretty good at locking things
down over the past few years so an extra service or three I need to
shutdown is not scary to me.
- It sounds like you did an expert install, but did not opt for individual
- package selection.
Yes. I had existing partitions I did not want upset -- especially
/home -- and I figured it would be similar to a Redhat install.
- bison, yacc, et al can be found at any of the mirrors. Check
- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 for a current list. They may also
- be on your CD... Use a file manager like mc or konqueror to check.
Thanks, I will take a look...
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