On 11/30/2010 01:42 AM, Douglas McClendon wrote:
thats not true. A bare metal install will finish before your livecd has finished booting.
Sure, pedantically you are no doubt correct even though I have no idea what a 'bare metal install' means in this context.
to me, 'a bare metal' install is where its just the bios, pxe into a pre-established install set ( via a ks.cfg ) - Also, rebooting before a machine gets deployed in a 'role' is actually very highly recommended. Install images and run-time images are never guaranteed to be identical.
.. and you lose any/all management ability from the standard distro-aware tools. Ofcourse, that does not matter if you don't need those tools anyway.
Also here I don't really know what you mean. Though yes, LiveCD installations are presently still less flexible in several ways than the
management tooling like cobbler/spacewalk/theforeman/existing and established install -> deployment tools etc.
But what I'm describing are things I'd like to experiment with building, and present as experimental options and ideas to this list in the future. Absolutely off-topic as far as the obvious priority #1 of this list at the moment. So... never mind for now.
Sounds good, and I look forward to trying out some of these things. Over the next few months, lets try and see if we can create hooks in the centos build process that allows such 'alternatives' to be built in sync with the main distro. Were going to trial something very basic for the LiveCD stuff this time.
- KB