Yeah, replying to myself. Well, after my last email, I went into the lab... to discover that it had already installed - apparently a kickstart file, and the folks at Dell who wrote this come from a M$ background, and they know what you want better than you do. I never had a choice to pick what additional packages I wanted, nor get rid of those I don't need (like openldap-servers). I need to get hold of Dell, and tell them what I think of this software.... mark ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:14:55 -0500 (EST) >From: <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> >Subject: RE: Dell "software" >To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >Marshall, > >>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:32:47 -0600 >>From: "McDougall, Marshall (FSH)" >> >>"Why would I want to wipe /home, or /opt, if they already >>exist? Give me one " >> >>/home is where DB2 lives and I want to start over or resize it >> >>/opt is where Sybase and my power monitoring software lives, etc. >> >Well, sure - but you can do that without running the Dell software, which is *specifically* for installing or upgrading the o/s itself. > >For d/b's, you might need to reinstall/install drivers... but again, you don't have to use the Dell software to do that, but the d/b's own installer. > > mark > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list