From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: Red Hat Linux 9 Text Mode Installation Fault: I start the installation in text mode by specifying "linux text" at the boot prompt. At the package selection manual, I de-select Webserver, X Windows system and Gnome windows manager. However, all these are installed and a Xconfigurator is presented at the end of the installation! So poor in package management. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. At the boot prompt, type "linux text" 2. Follow the installation steps till selection of package 3. De-select webserver, X Windows system and Gnome 4. Let the installation complete. Actual Results: The de-selected items of Apache, XFree86, Gnome, etc. are installed. Expected Results: The de-selected packages should not be installed. Additional info:
The RH9 installer doesn't seem to care much about what you actually choose, whether you're using text-only or graphical installers. I have unsuccessfully tried to get through the process without installing cups, sendmail and anything gnome-related, but the installer not only installs cups and sendmail anyway, but they're up and running after the first reboot. In install-related news, you can't actually uninstall them through the GUI at all.
I'll add this here rather than file a new bug, as it may be related. I found this on severn Betas 1 and 2. I have not tested for it on RH 9. OpenOffice.org has three RPMs, of an average size of 35 MB. If you install the Office/Productivity group, you get all three. Fine. If you select Office/Productivity and then deselect OpenOffice.org, openoffice-i18n-1.0.2-4 and openoffice-libs-1.0.2-4 are installed anyway. They have no purpose other than to support openoffice-1.0.2-4, and can be removed immediately after installation: [root@issola root]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 1.6G 1.3G 235M 85% / /dev/hda2 98M 6.2M 87M 7% /boot none 34M 0 34M 0% /dev/shm [root@issola root]# rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep openoffice` [root@issola root]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 1.6G 1.1G 460M 71% / /dev/hda2 98M 6.2M 87M 7% /boot none 34M 0 34M 0% /dev/shm [root@issola root]# The problem is reproducable with kickstart files. The only workaround of which I am aware is to use a kickstart file and deselect all the packages you don't want. This error costs 225MB, which is significant on older machines, such as those used by non-profits, educational institutions, and in poorer countries where folks don't have a lot of money.
This should be better in newer releases.