On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
so in order to quantify exactly what should be on the minimal install set :
support install from optical media
support install from usb disk
install as native platform
- install to Xen domU
- install to kvm VM
- Functional on post-install
- firstboot ( for hooks etc that people put in )
- yum with the standard centos repos
- sshd
- selinux
- functional dhcp client
- functional ipv6 stack + ipv4 stack
- iptables and ip6tables
A list from my kickstarts :
+ ntp + wget and/or links + rsync + telnet (as a test tool)
Questions;
What else should added in ?
Should we remove some more excess ?
what is the thinking on lsb state for this media ?
Finally, I am conflicted on the idea of dropping the gui installer
completely. On one hand, we could claw back serious disk space - on the other hand, it drastically changes the install experience. Tbh, the install experience is a bigger deal. But worth pointing out.
And the problem that the text interfance does not support LVM (at least in 5, I don't know if they added that in 6) and there are problably other features that are only in the GUI interface.
Regards, Tim