Ken Teh wrote:
> I would like to install a minimal SL system plus/minus certain 
> packages. Since it's minimal, I figure the easiest way is to install 
> core (maybe base) and manually add and subtract packages in the ks 
> file.  Another possibility is to modify the comps.xml file to turn 
> type='default' to type='optional' for those packages I don't want.  Of 
> course, that means I have to host the installation tree on a server 
> inside of fetching them via http from a mirror.  Both methods are 
> about equivalent. What I don't want to do is sit in front the machine 
> and manually check and uncheck packages.
>
> The above approaches work only because it's a minimal install.  
> Anything more would get pretty tedious.  Are there cleverer ways of 
> doing this?
>
Manually checking/unchecking is probably about the fastest way of doing 
it, certainly much faster than hand typing each package name or editing 
a bunch of 8+ character strings in an xml file.  I'd either do the 
clicking at install time or use the system-config-kickstart tool on an 
existing setup to generate a kickstart before you get going.  If you're 
not the mouse type, once you get in to the package lists in the 
installer, you can use the up/down keys and spacebar to toggle packages 
extremely fast.

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Mr. Mark V. Stodola
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