Ken Teh wrote:
I would like to install a minimal SL system plus/minus certain
packages. Since it's minimal, I figure the easiest way is to install
core (maybe base) and manually add and subtract packages in the ks
file. Another possibility is to modify the comps.xml file to turn
type='default' to type='optional' for those packages I don't want. Of
course, that means I have to host the installation tree on a server
inside of fetching them via http from a mirror. Both methods are
about equivalent. What I don't want to do is sit in front the machine
and manually check and uncheck packages.
The above approaches work only because it's a minimal install.
Anything more would get pretty tedious. Are there cleverer ways of
doing this?
Manually checking/unchecking is probably about the fastest way of doing
it, certainly much faster than hand typing each package name or editing
a bunch of 8+ character strings in an xml file. I'd either do the
clicking at install time or use the system-config-kickstart tool on an
existing setup to generate a kickstart before you get going. If you're
not the mouse type, once you get in to the package lists in the
installer, you can use the up/down keys and spacebar to toggle packages
extremely fast.
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Mr. Mark V. Stodola
Digital Systems Engineer
National Electrostatics Corp.
P.O. Box 620310
Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA
Phone: (608) 831-7600
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