redhat_tip_install_all_then_remove

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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:12:37 -0700
From: Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer@best.com>
To: Rafael <raffi@linwin.com>
Cc: svlug@svlug.org
Subject: Re: [svlug] gui lilo..?

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:41:07PM -0700, Rafael wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Alex Feinberg wrote:
> them. When You can prove me that you can install "server" under RH6.2 I'll
> change my mind but till then I can demonstrate otherwise. When I select
> "server" under Solaris the system becomes a server, and not a bunch of
> broken dependencies which crash under RedHat installation itself in most
> cases. As a matter of fact RH crashes with blue screen if you select wrong
> combination of individual packages. Happened 3 minutes ago on a new 800
> MHz machine.

Hahaha. I have come to the conclusion that the best approach to Red Hat is
to just let it install all it's *dependencies* during an initial install--
then it is easy to remove all the junk. You really can't do a sane install
with the Red Hat installer... Hahaha.

At least I can't...

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