i wish the installation procedure would let me choose what to install as well as having a default install-all method. anyways is there any easy or at least maybe a process to remove the majority of the extra desktops, applications, almost everything down to a plain gnome or even cmd line?
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Have you tried the AutoYast stuff? You can perform an install (or just
create a new configuration via Yast) and then get the settings you chose
saved to an XML file that you can then specify for subsequent installs
which will do what you did (or specified) previously. This can make an
install take significantly less time because of the lack or decrease of
user interaction.
Good luck.
uschxc wrote:
| i wish the installation procedure would let me choose what to install as
| well as having a default install-all method. anyways is there any easy
| or at least maybe a process to remove the majority of the extra
| desktops, applications, almost everything down to a plain gnome or even
| cmd line?
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as far as yast goes it led me to a package manager where i tried to start removing packages i didn’t need in mass hoping that suse would work out the dependencies and uninstall all of them as well. the package manager wasn’t what i was hoping for.
i have to eventually secure and lock down this box so more basic the better. can you walk me through or point me to a guide of how to go about what you mentioned? i’ve never used suse before, am more of a debian-ish person.
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During the install when you get to the section where you choose Software
packages you should be on a view of “Patterns” which are basically
packages that go together. I would start by getting there and
unchecking EVERYTHING except the base system which should be fairly
stripped-down (a SLES install like that is around 500-600 MB… I assume
opensuse 11 is probably similar). Once done add in whatever you need
(or remove more) for your minimal install. At the end of the install be
sure you choose to create autoinst.xml file (which is placed in /root)
and use that for subsequent installs. This XML file can be manipulated
further as you see fit. During your next install at the Install line
(Grub) you simply specify where this file is available (usually via
network). Google found this for me:
http://www.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_doc/invoking_autoinst.html
Good luck.
uschxc wrote:
| as far as yast goes it led me to a package manager where i tried to
| start removing packages i didn’t need in mass hoping that suse would
| work out the dependencies and uninstall all of them as well. the
| package manager wasn’t what i was hoping for.
|
| i have to eventually secure and lock down this box so more basic the
| better. can you walk me through or point me to a guide of how to go
| about what you mentioned? i’ve never used suse before, am more of a
| debian-ish person.
|
|
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> i wish the installation procedure would let me choose what to install as
> well as having a default install-all method.
it is there! (installing 11.0?, i’ve not seen that installer but on 10.3 and
earlier for the last several years) when you get to that page where you are
asked about partitioning possibilities, THERE somewhere on that page you can
bypass the ‘default’ install everything and DESELECT what you don’t won’t…
sorry, i can’t be more specific…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
i’ve done the install twice and haven’t seen anything as far as package selections. go.
our only options are suse redhat and fedora. we don’t have funding to pay for redhat updates so suse and fedora are my only options where fedora is not playing well on the network level.
i remember the pattern button but not sure if it was from the install. i’ll make another post and have access to the terminal to give it a run through and see what actually comes up.
i should be able to check this before the installer cd reboots itself to have suse start running off of the hdd correct?
uschxc wrote:
>
> i’ve done the install twice and haven’t seen anything as far as package
> selections. go.
>
> our only options are suse redhat and fedora. we don’t have funding to
> pay for redhat updates so suse and fedora are my only options where
> fedora is not playing well on the network level.
>
> i remember the pattern button but not sure if it was from the install.
> i’ll make another post and have access to the terminal to give it a run
> through and see what actually comes up.
>
> i should be able to check this before the installer cd reboots itself
> to have suse start running off of the hdd correct?
>
>
It’s in the screen where you see a summary of what the system is going to
do.
It says (in some order)
Partitioning:
BootLoader:
Software:
Clock/Time:
If you click on ‘Software’, you can select either a default install, one of
several ‘patterns’, which provide differing software preselects,
or ‘custom’, which will allow you to choose whatever software packages you
desire. (warning, it’s a HUGE list, pack a lunch!)
Loni
L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
> It’s in the screen where you see a summary of what the system is going to
> do.
>
> It says (in some order)
>
> Partitioning:
> BootLoader:
> Software:
> Clock/Time:
>
> If you click on ‘Software’ …
THAT is exactly it…thanks Loni…
uschxc, look for that and you WILL find more ability to pick and choose than you
will believe!!
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark