On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:39:37AM +0800, Marlon Yu wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all, > > I have downloaded RH8 off of ftp.redhat.com and placed it in CDRs (i > think it's the personal version?). Most of my installations are for > dedicated closed servers (ie they don't contain shell accounts and > most services are "virtualized"). Anyway, up until RH7.3 I've always > performed CUSTOM install and selected package sets (ie DNS server for > a machine performing only DNS). I've noticed that in 8.0, I can now > select package sets even if I specified SERVER install unlike before > where it installed pre-selected package sets. Now, it just > pre-selects package sets but still allows me to change it. > > Now my questions: > > 1. Which is a better option, to continue with CUSTOM or go with > SERVER? I don't want to needlessly install packages which won't do > anything (example: notice that even if one selects DNS server and > nothing else, RH *insists* on installing and running sendmail -- what > for??). What do you recommend I do when installing into a machine > which will only provide 1 type of service (DNS or WEB server or FTP > server)? > If you customize the packages installed heavily, you might be better off selecting Server, which installs a smaller number of packages by default, and then adding/subtracting from there. > 2. Is there a list somewhere with details of which RPMs are installed > when selecting a package set? This should help in deciding which > sets to install. > On the first CD, look at the RedHat/base/comps.xml file. > 3. My machines are dedicated servers providing at most 2 types of > services (in any combination). It has no shell access except for the > sysadmin account. Only 2 consoles are active. Remote access is via > ssh only with rootlogin denied. Can I compile the kernel on another > machine and just transfer it (together with System.map, vmlinuz, and > modules of course)? This would aid in preventing me from having to > install kernel sources to all machines (we do compile/dev work on > another machine and just transfer binaries to the end server; we > prefer stripping anything unneeded from the machine -- talk about > extreme paranoia -- but we are waaaay too new to linux to go with > Linux from scratch). > Sure. The binary kernels that come in the distro are built on a different machine that the one you installed. The machine must be the same arch, of course. > 4. Any suggestions or howto on setting up our own local RHN-type of > update service? I want to download the updates (or mirror the > updates.redhat.com site) to a central server and have my servers > periodically update from that central server. > Red Hat offers these services: RHN Satellite Server and RHN Proxy Server. Go to rhn.redhat.com for details. Cheers, Tammy
