* Ken Yap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> |Nope - I asked it for a 'server' install - thats the only option it gave me -
> > then it dumped 4GB+ onto my nice new laptop (this was over =12 months ago -
> >the first DVD release of SuSE - things may have improved).
> |
> |The only way I could get to an actual package selection was to use YaST V1 (t
> >he text based one).
> |
> |YMMV
>
> You're getting poor milage (aren't you metricated yet?) then, because
> various classes of install were definitely offered to me in both Yast1/2
> for both 7.0/7.1. If you think about it, they would exclude a large
> proportion of the market if they insisted on trying to install 4 GB (and
> failing halfway running out of disk space) for *everybody*. Like 95% of
> the people who report "compiler bugs", it's usually pilot error.
>
I'm English - we use miles! ;-)
I may well be wrong - it was a while ago and I didn't play around too much with it. I
can't remember ever finding a util which allowed you to select individual packages
from graphical installer. If it was there then it wasn't obviously marked or
accessable (from what I remember)
Greeno
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