If you select & de-select X, it will still install linuxconf, but that's
not just a GUI tool; it's the curses version that will be installed, and
it's a handy tool.
Monte Milanuk wrote:
>
> Tried that... It insists on installing drakconf or some such gui tool,
> and I presume the requisite X environment.
>
> Monte
>
> "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
> >
> > Monte Milanuk wrote:
> >
> > > O.K. I am going to take the plunge. I am getting an ISDN line put in,
> > > and will get a terminal adapter ISDN modem. Since the local internet
> > > provider's ISDN account has an unlimited access plan, this box will
> > > probably be up and online a lot of the time. Currently I use Freesco
> > > 0.25 running from a 3.5" floppy to act as a firewall/router/dialup
> > > gateway on a spare Celeron266 w/ 64MB RAM. I would like to 'upgrade'
> > > this to an full blown intranet server/firewall/gateway running on a PII
> > > 400 w/ 128MB RAM, and about 24GB of hard drive space. I hope to have
> > > this box serving
> > > DHCP, DNS, Samba, NFS, xntp, mail, news, squid, etc., and maybe X
> > > (vnc). The one thing that this box really doesn't need is multimedia (
> > > sound, or graphics, etc). I would like to admin the box over the local
> > > network using Webmin.
> > >
> > > Now on to the main topic of this post: How the heck can I get LM 7.0 to
> > > install w/o X? I can make a boot disk for a text-mode network install,
> > > but the install program insists on adding the X Window system and
> > > KDE/Gnome, etc. I don't want/need them, so do I just have to put up w/
> > > this and remove them after the install? Also, would I be better off
> > > doing this sort of setup w/ LM 6.1 instead?
> > >
> > > Monte
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________
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> >
> > If you install in an expert / server mode you should be able to select the
> > packages to be installed. Just don't select X...
> >
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