On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
I can see situations where a self-contained one-step install would be better. Maybe the minimal install build could look for a 2nd partition on the iso or a mounted usb for a continuation script.
Yes, that is called a kickstart and anaconda is designed specifically to allow you to pass one in .. either locally or on the web, etc. You original install and be additive.
I meant adding a standard place to look for the optional kickstart or post-install script to the stock minimal install. A person who would have trouble logging in and running a script after a base install would not find typing the kickstart command line much easier.
You can do whatever you want on YOUR OWN systems and call it whatever you want. Anything you are smart enough to do.
I thought that was the original context here. Someone needing a remote install of a customized system - by a person who shouldn't be making any of the choices the installer offers.
If you tried to redistribute that as CentOS (your clonezilla images, for exampel), and say that it is official CentOS, well it is not. Official CentOS is in the form that we release it, not some other form. Especially not some other form where things are modified.
You can't modify Ubuntu or Debian or OpenSUSE either, and then distribute it and call it either of those things either. This is why Linux Mint is not Ubuntu and Ubuntu is not Debian ... but Linux mint is 'based on Ubuntu' and Ubyntu is 'based on Debain'. This is not rocket science.
Legalese is much worse than rocket science. Where does a VM image fit in this scheme? Can people build a VM image with an application installed for distribution and still identify the base system name? And if so, how/why is that different from any other copy?