using "firstboot" for further SW installation

[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