[SunRescue] RE: rescue digest, Vol 1 #1254 - 13 msgs

[Ken Hansen]

Bob,

I may be wrong, but I think the main difference between the installation levels is what gets put on disk - I don't think Solaris becomes more bloated as you install additional packages, but I could be wrong. Linux, on th eother hand, installs and activates software. If you have the diskspace, whole shebang should be fine. But that is just an opinion.

Also, don't be scared off - I think this is the maillist you want to be on (Solaris Admin for Dummies), we just happen to have a lot more "former" Dummies than "current" dummies.

Ken
(Current Dummy)

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Message: 4
From: User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak <bobkeys at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:56:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [SunRescue] Pros and cons of which solaris level to install.....
Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org

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?)