On 11/27/2010 11:45 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 11/26/10 12:30 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 11/26/2010 05:06 PM, Jean-Marc Liger wrote:
Something which focus on what was the CentOS 4 Server CD is a good target. We could base it on some current Group Install Options like "CentOS// Server (GUI)".
Thats possible, but we should try and consider what the install package sets are on the upstream product and see if its possible to match that in some way.
w.r.t ServerCD-4, i just went with the most common server packages ( as measured by download numbers on mirror.c.o ); that worked as an additional install media, over and above the main distro CD/DVD set, but if we are going to have something like this for our main install media I feel trying to get close to the upstream product might be a good idea.
what do you think ?
I think it would be great to have a minimal CD/USB install image that would get you to a point where you can run yum after the reboot. Whether enough server packages fit to be useful without having yum install more packages is somewhat irrelevant if we assume that you need enough internet connectivity to do updates anyway. The idea would be to have a super-fast install that doesn't need a DVD
If you want fast, nothing beats a LiveCD/USB, particularly the way fedora's livecd-tools does it (dd fs copy, with my convoluted dm optimization). If you want super-fast, throw a rebootless installer (zyx-liveinstaller) on top of that. Oops, I just willfully spammed the list. It just seemed relevent to the thread however. And also a good place to add the forgotten caveat to my last post about procedure, i.e. I do have an obvious ulterior motive in wanting to see round1 packages ASAP, so that I can start playing around with centos6 based livecd/usbs.
-dmc
drive and gets you to a point where you can debug hardware/network problems, add some drivers, etc. in difficult cases and (unlike a network install) lets you continue after failures. And it would make it quick and easy for off-site people to get a machine to the point where you could ssh in to run the rest of the 'yum install', etc. commands to customize it.