[NTLUG:Discuss] Selective or Full install?

[Philip Stetz]

---  tr_data1 <tr_data1 at ev1.net> 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 usually start with a default install, then go
through the package list and select things that I
might find interesting and take off packages that I
definitely will not use (assembly compiler).

I'm not sure about Mandrake, but I'm almost positive
it will check for dependencies on your selected
packages so it will automatically install everything
you need. 

Yes, you will need to take all the packages in mind
from a security perspective.  If you install and turn
on services make sure you at least secure them and
have them protected w/ a firewall.  Also, you will
need to run periodic package updates to keep them
patched.  Again, I'm not sure about Mandrake, but I'm
sure there is a utility that will make this easy.  

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