Karanbir Singh wrote:
Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
It will be usefull for those who with to walk around with a CD drive and need to install servers.
the only issue with that is what / how would you define 'servers'. Its easier to work with something like a package list of what would be considered reasonable to have on a default install, then remove the option to make installtime package selections and deliver only that raw package manifest thats been pre-selected.
Isn't kickstart enough for servers? Unless it's your first server, it's easy enough to specify ks=http://ks.example.com/ks?server
Maybe, if there's a CD image, it could have an interactive ks, one that makes an otherwise non-default package selection?
There does not need to be a separate CD, if the first CD in the set has the capability.
_I_ would be content with a so-called server install that has just enough CentOS to get networking up and allow me to install more stuff. How hard is this?
yum install this that theother
If I want to script customisation and I don't want to use kickstart, it's not hard to do it on first boot: one script could reconfigure yum, install standard and non-standard packages, add users, whatever. It's not really so different whether it's done via ks or later.
I've never really understood the point of a so-called server CD.