On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:42 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Mark Haney wrote:
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>> It is just not worth my time. Next time it will be SUSE instead.
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>> -Frank
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> Good luck with that. I have a SUSE box that has virtually nothing
> installed by default. You think Fedora's installation is sparse? I was
> amazed at the total lack of packages installed in SUSE. Really, it's a
> total joke to work on that server. It has KDE /and/ GNOME installed (on
> a /server/ no less) and yet I had to install the sysstat packages along
> with ntpd and about 3 or 4 others just to make the server really
> manageable. The SUSE install is just silly. The Fedora installer is at
> least more /sane/ than most other installers I've seen or used.
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> But it seems rather childish to switch distros just for that. Kind of
> like taking your ball and going home, eh?
I found the FC5 lack of 'install everything' to be a really serious pain
on the machine I built a week and a half ago as I had to do it three or
four times in a row as I worked through the problems I was having with
install media.
It is aggravated by the fact that choosing a group of things doesn't
actually mean you get everything in that group, either, and so you have to
manually tick through nearly *every* menu to make sure that you have
actually have a full install.
You can right click on a group in both the Installer and Pirut to select
every package in a group. Otherwise you might use kickstart.
Rahul