Posted by: Administrator
on March 22, 2007 10:17 PM
You can also just download the regular CD 1 of the full-blown CentOS and do a minimal install. That only uses CD 1... so you don't have to download the other CDs. Then you can use yum to install just the server apps you want.
The Server CD is great too... but for those who already have the full CD set who want to do a light-weight install like you mentioned, just plop in CD 1 and do minimal.
You can also easily add a desktop environment by using package group names with yum... so it isn't such a bad deal for someone wanting to download only CD 1 and then bootstrap up a GUI system with YUM only downloading the packages that are going to be installed. Some people act like Ubuntu or Debian are the only distros you can get going easily with a single CD but that certainly isn't the case.
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Posted by: Administrator on March 22, 2007 10:17 PMThe Server CD is great too... but for those who already have the full CD set who want to do a light-weight install like you mentioned, just plop in CD 1 and do minimal.
You can also easily add a desktop environment by using package group names with yum... so it isn't such a bad deal for someone wanting to download only CD 1 and then bootstrap up a GUI system with YUM only downloading the packages that are going to be installed. Some people act like Ubuntu or Debian are the only distros you can get going easily with a single CD but that certainly isn't the case.
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