Re: Deleting the graphcial portion of Anaconda

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Thanks Paul. The hints and advice you gave me should
be a good starting point.

Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:17PM +0000, Ramiro Morales wrote:
> > People, 
> > 
> > Trying to squeeze more and more space of a copy of 
> > the Red Hat Linux 6.2 CD so there is enough room to 
> > include all relevant updates and various extra packages; 
> > I used to delete several non-critical portions of 
> > the original CD as shipped by RH.
> 
> I've customised anaconda in the past graphically (both text and
> graphical before).
> 
> The source is under
> 
> i386/misc/src/anaconda
> 
> The trees dir is used for building boot disks, etc.
> 
> The stuff isn't that well documented, AFAIK.  Most of this is from
> memory so may be wrong
> 
> The gui stuff for anaconda is under the iw/ gnome/ directories  (the iw
> stands for InstallWindow).  The anaconda file can be edited to force the
> default.    This would then need to be installed into the second stage
> ramdisks and the uncompressed instimage directory.  There is a makefile
> to do this either in the anaconda dir or the trees dir.  You can also
> get rid of the pixmaps which endup under instimage/usr/share/pixmaps and
> instimage/usr/share/anaconda/pixmaps
> 
> The best reference is the source and the Makefiles
> 
> Paul
> 
> -- 
> "we apologise for any inconvenience" - God's Last Message to His Creation
> Courtesy of Douglas Adams
> 


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