RHEL 5 server installation

drManhattan · 10-15-2010, 07:33 AM

Hi

I have to install RHEL 5.0 onto one of productions machines. Programming department need this to be clean installation without GUI. They also need : vi editor, no man pages and that's all.

What kind of packages I should install from installation wizard ?
There are :

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[]Administration Tools
[]Authoring and Publishing
[]DNS Name Server
[]Development Libraries
[]Development Tools
[]Editors
[]Engineering and Scientific
[]FTP Server
[]GNOME Desktop Environment
[]GNOME Software Development
[]Games and Entertainment
[]Graphical Internet
[]Graphics
[]Java Development
[]KDE (K Dektop Environment)
[]KDE Software Development
[]Legacy Network Server
[]Legacy Software Development
[]Legacy Software Support
[]Mail Server
[]MySQL DataBase
[]Network Servers
[]News Server
[]Office/Productivity
[]OpenFabrics Enterprise Distributions
[]Postgre SQL Databse
[]Printing Support
[]Server Configuration Tools
[]Sound and Video
[]System Tools
[]Text Based Internet
[]Virtualization
[]Web Server
[]Windows File Server
[]X Software Development
[]X Window System

Is there some kind of standard in preparing RHEL clean installation (what packages) that sys admins follow in order to prepare production installation on server platform ?

thx for help

AlucardZero · 10-15-2010, 07:45 AM

"X Window System" and "GNOME Desktop Environment" are the GUI. "Editors" is where vi is.

divyashree · 10-15-2010, 12:07 PM

Install all these as the libraries are neede later .

[]Development Libraries
[]Development Tools
[]Editors
[]Engineering and Scientific
[]GNOME Desktop Environment
[]GNOME Software Development
[]Java Development
[]KDE (K Dektop Environment)
[]KDE Software Development
[]Legacy Software Development
[]Legacy Software Support
[]X Software Development

AlucardZero · 10-15-2010, 01:06 PM

No, if he doesn't want a GUI, then he absolutely does not want to install Gnome or KDE or X.

Stephannn · 10-15-2010, 02:47 PM

Ditto; indeed, he might not want to install *any* of the development libraries, depending on the Dev Environment.

drManhattan, you may want to ask them if they have any specific development libraries available. Other than that, you'll only really want:

[]Editors - vi only

[]System Tools - default options

If you see a section that says 'Base' later, accept it with default options. If your Programming department needs anything additional installed, they can do it through Yum.

cjfester · 02-10-2011, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by drManhattan

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[]Administration Tools
[]Authoring and Publishing
[]DNS Name Server
[]Development Libraries
[]Development Tools
[]Editors
[]Engineering and Scientific
[]FTP Server
[]GNOME Desktop Environment
[]GNOME Software Development
[]Games and Entertainment
[]Graphical Internet
[]Graphics
[]Java Development
[]KDE (K Dektop Environment)
[]KDE Software Development
[]Legacy Network Server
[]Legacy Software Development
[]Legacy Software Support
[]Mail Server
[]MySQL DataBase
[]Network Servers
[]News Server
[]Office/Productivity
[]OpenFabrics Enterprise Distributions
[]Postgre SQL Databse
[]Printing Support
[]Server Configuration Tools
[]Sound and Video
[]System Tools
[]Text Based Internet
[]Virtualization
[]Web Server
[]Windows File Server
[]X Software Development
[]X Window System

HOW i come to this window after system already installed? I want to install some packages/group of packages that dont work with yum groupinstall "..." I have made this once, but i dont remember how to ... any suggestion?