using "firstboot" for further SW installation

[Robert P. J. Day]

  from a previous posting, i recall the proposal of using the initial install
to do a "minimal"install, then using "firstboot" to further
configure/install.
would this have any implications for estimating space usage that you can
do now?

  at the moment, when i install, i can get an estimate of how large to make
the /usr filesystem by selecting "Everything", even if i only plan on
installing
a subset of the packages.  doing that at least tells me how much space i might
need later if i decide to add everything i left out.

  how would leaving additional installation until firstboot affect this?  or would
it?

rday

[Craig Ringer]

>    at the moment, when i install, i can get an estimate of how large
> to make
>  the /usr filesystem by selecting "Everything", even if i only plan on
> installing
>  a subset of the packages.  doing that at least tells me how much space i might
>  need later if i decide to add everything i left out. 
It shouldn't be too hard to make the installer capable of telling you 
"the total size of all the packages you could install in this Red Hat 
release is ..." - even in the relnotes should be good enough.

Craig Ringer

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Craig Ringer wrote:

>  >   at the moment, when i install, i can get an estimate of how
> large to make
>  > the /usr filesystem by selecting "Everything", even if i only plan on
> installing
>  > a subset of the packages.  doing that at least tells me how much space i might
>  > need later if i decide to add everything i left out.
>  
>  It shouldn't be too hard to make the installer capable of telling you 
>  "the total size of all the packages you could install in this Red Hat 
>  release is ..." - even in the relnotes should be good enough. 
oh, i'm sure it isn't.  i'm still waffling on what i think of the idea
of a minimal install first, and then firstboot taking it from there.
i'd just like to avoid the possibility of nasty surprises during
firstboot.

rday