[NTLUG:Discuss] Selective or Full install?

[David Ross]

On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:20 am, tr_data1 wrote:
> I finally had the time to throw together some hardware for another
> Linux system. Latest BIOS is now loaded and I am ready to install
> Mandrake 9.2 PP. My general goal is for it to be my main devl system.
>
> What approach do you take in regards to package selection? Do you:
> a) use the default install, only selecting a major choices
> b) Select EVERYTHING that looks interesting to you
>
> IIRC, 1-2 years ago a friend of mine said that if he didn't install certain
> things during the install of the OS, they wouldn't install correctly at a
> later time. I have plenty of disk space and would love to tinker with a
> lot of the stuff. Any known problems with (b)? Security issues?
>
I use Mandrake 9.2 and did manual package selection at install time.Now when I 
need a new package "urpmi" does everything for me. I have not had any 
problems adding new software. And I have added a lot since install time.

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David Ross
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