From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jul 5 16: 7:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B6C37B405 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 16:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0DD043E31 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 16:07:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from spark.techno.pagans (spark.techno.pagans [4.61.202.145]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F92471DA; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by spark.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E2B4FEBE; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D261970.2923CB1@pantherdragon.org> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 15:10:56 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manuel Kasper Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perhaps a new "distribution"? References: <001a01c22443$91de50f0$5b00a8c0@CNMKA> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Manuel Kasper wrote: > Well the only thing I would wish for at the moment is one or two > additional distribution choices in the FreeBSD installer. "Minimal" > takes up about 80 MB at the moment, but includes things you may not need > on a truly minimal system (like e.g. compilers). It would be cool if a > more detailed choice could be made during installation, say up to a > granularity where you can decide whether or not you want Perl, or gcc, > or sendmail, etc. That would render my guide almost obsolete, however. To rip this issue right down to its roots, FreeBSD's installer lacks the itemization of the distrubtion sets that a lot of Linux distro's have. For example, RedHat has a method that's basically like our ports collection. It lets you do a custom install with single-program granularity and dependency checking at the expense of the actual copy taking longer, but also has pre-packaged installs and distribution sets. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message