[SunRescue] Pros and cons of which solaris level to install.....

[Gil Young]

If you are not low on disk space, I would install everything, then 
customize and remove the things like suns apache package, install the GCC 
binary package off of sunfreeware, and start compiling everything you 
need!  Alternately, you can get all your packages precompiled at 
sunfreeware and then not need a big initial install.  For my itme and 
headaches, I'd install everything minus the freeware packages that I can 
get the best and latest elsewhere.

Gil

At 01:56 PM 4/24/01 -0400, you wrote:
>While I am in the installing solaris8 on everything including the kitchen
>sink, I was wondering if anyone had any feeling for which of the various
>selection options (core, low-end user, high-end user, whole shebang)
>was the best to install?   I have two basic needs, 1) a small web/ftp
>server for servicing the local network for web pages and for ftp installs
>of things like Free/Net/OpenBSD.  I was thinking of using my Classic
>for that need.  2) would be a generic learning desktop, and will probably
>have everything loaded.  The 1) machine would probably be terminal driven,
>and a basic install would do, then add in packages sufficient to compile
>and then compile up apache and a few minor mail/news/ftp/web ditties.
>If I just load the core install, what kinds of things are needed beyond
>that to accomplish the small web/ftp server tasks?  Is there a doc on
>the sundocs site that explains what gets loaded at each different level
>of install?
>
>Thanks
>
>Bob
>
>(Bill... is there a solaris admin list for dummies like me that I should
>subscribe to?)
>
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