Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-07 Thread Sasa Stupar
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: At 03:11 10/5/2003, you wrote: Anyway I'll try to make minimum with custom setup from RH8 and with ignoring dependiences. Will see how it works. Ignoring dependencies is not usually a good idea. A product depends on another for a reason usually... OK, I have managed

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-07 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11:07 10/7/2003, you wrote: OK, I have managed to install only 365 megs directly with RH8 distribution. That is without perl,sendmail, openssl, openssh and some other garbage but with gcc and kernel headers. After I have succesfully copiled and installed latest versions of perl, openssl,

RE: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-07 Thread Chris W. Parker
Rodolfo J. Paiz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:51 AM said: It comes down to the fact that Red Hat has to make the installation easy for millions of users and they do their best to make a generally-pleasing approximation of minimal. Then they leave each user the

RE: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-07 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 12:01 10/7/2003, you wrote: Wouldn't it be just as easy for them to create yet another option called bare minimum or bare bones or something like that which includes only the packages required to have a bootable system? From there the user could add whatever packages they wanted. It is probably

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-05 Thread Sasa Stupar
Did you even look at the RULE page that someone suggested to you? That is exactly what RULE does: allow you to install a Red Hat Linux system into older hardware, or any hardware with less memory (down to 6MB RAM in some cases), and install a much smaller set of packages than Anaconda usually

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-05 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 05 October 2003 03:25 am, Sasa Stupar wrote: Did you even look at the RULE page that someone suggested to you? That is exactly what RULE does: allow you to install a Red Hat Linux system into older hardware, or any hardware

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-05 Thread Sasa Stupar
Michael Fratoni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 05 October 2003 03:25 am, Sasa Stupar wrote: Did you even look at the RULE page that someone suggested to you? That is exactly what RULE does: allow you to install a Red Hat Linux system into older hardware, or any

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-05 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 03:11 10/5/2003, you wrote: Anyway I'll try to make minimum with custom setup from RH8 and with ignoring dependiences. Will see how it works. Ignoring dependencies is not usually a good idea. A product depends on another for a reason usually... -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-04 Thread Sasa Stupar
L. K. Pierce wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:17, R Snchez wrote: Wasn't there some type of distro proyect that was precisely a RedHat adaptation for minimal systems? Yes, it's called RULE. http://www.rule-project.org Yes, that's nice but I would like that guys from Redhat make a minimal

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-04 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11:29 10/4/2003, you wrote: L. K. Pierce wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:17, R Sánchez wrote: Wasn't there some type of distro proyect that was precisely a RedHat adaptation for minimal systems? Yes, it's called RULE. http://www.rule-project.org Yes, that's nice but I would like that guys

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-04 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:04:08PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: Did you even look at the RULE page that someone suggested to you? That is exactly what RULE does: allow you to install a Red Hat Linux system into older hardware, or any hardware with less memory (down to 6MB RAM in some

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-04 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 15:13 10/4/2003, you wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:04:08PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: Did you even look at the RULE page that someone suggested to you? That is exactly what RULE does: allow you to install a Red Hat Linux system into older hardware, or any hardware with less memory

RULE (branch of former 'Minimal install RH8?')

2003-10-04 Thread R Sánchez
There's a lot being said about RULE, and I regret the fact that most of the things said are pointed out by people who don't know what RULE is. What it is NOT: * A distro * A distro that takes packages made by Redhat and cracks them to fit their own logo. What it IS: * A project that tests which

Re: RULE (branch of former 'Minimal install RH8?')

2003-10-04 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:40:48AM +0200, R Sánchez wrote: There's a lot being said about RULE, and I regret the fact that most of the things said are pointed out by people who don't know what RULE is. [snip] What it IS: * A project that makes avaidable an installer which picks those

Re: RULE (branch of former 'Minimal install RH8?')

2003-10-04 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 17:49 10/4/2003, you wrote: Copyright issues - NO. Trademark issues - YES, if you call the result Red Hat Linux. It's simply not Red Hat Linux. From what I've read, it is a very valuable project to a lot of people, but the result is not Red Hat Linux. But Ed... nobody is calling the result

Re: RULE (branch of former 'Minimal install RH8?')

2003-10-04 Thread R Sánchez
- Original Message - From: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 1:49 AM Subject: Re: RULE (branch of former 'Minimal install RH8?') | Copyright issues - NO. Trademark issues - YES, if you call the result | Red Hat Linux. It's simply not Red Hat Linux. From

Re: RULE (branch of former 'Minimal install RH8?')

2003-10-04 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 October 2003 07:49 pm, Ed Wilts wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:40:48AM +0200, R Sánchez wrote: What it IS: * A project that makes avaidable an installer which picks those apps from your original redhat iso's. Really don't

Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-03 Thread Sasa Stupar
Hi! I am thinking of making a fresh install of RH8 with minimal option (476 megs). Then I myself to compile and install PHP, Apache2, Squid, Samba, Wu-ftp. The question is if I will be able to compile all this with the software which is allready installed with this minimal instalation or I

RE: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-03 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
You'll need gcc, kernel headers and some dev libs, and some other packages. -Original Message- From: Sasa Stupar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Minimal install RH8? Hi! I am thinking of making a fresh install of RH8

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-03 Thread R Sánchez
, 2003 4:16 PM Subject: RE: Minimal install RH8? | You'll need gcc, kernel headers and some dev libs, and some other packages. | | -Original Message- | From: Sasa Stupar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 10:16 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Minimal install RH8

Re: Minimal install RH8?

2003-10-03 Thread L. K. Pierce
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:17, R Snchez wrote: Wasn't there some type of distro proyect that was precisely a RedHat adaptation for minimal systems? Yes, it's called RULE. http://www.rule-project.org -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]