Selecting a Canned Distribution Set
Figure 2.4 shows the Choose Distributions menu.
Figure 2.4. Selecting the distribution.
If you have the space, I suggest that you select the All option. If you are running a server, and you are sure you will not need the X-Windows system, you can select the Developer option instead. If you select an option that doesn't include the source code, you cannot build a new kernel or upgrade the system through cvsup (unless you download all the sources while doing the cvsup, which negates the space-saving of not installing the sources here). If you select an option that only installs the kernel sources but not the rest ...
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