on 11-3-2008 12:38 PM Karanbir Singh spake the following:
Dag Wieers wrote:
Hi,
I have been asked a few times about a CentOS 5 ServerCD. Is something like this planned or simply impossible ?
(Was reminded by this comment on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/304730/)
Some of the issues, of the top of my head :
- Upstream now has a product called 'Server' and at the time we felt it
might cause confusion to have a 'Server' that is not even remotely the same thing as upstreams 'Server'
- ServerCD 4 to ServerCD(!) 5 upgrades required a ServerCD5 that was
almost 900MB in size.
- Since you can now have a finer level of package selection and
installation control at install time, many people felt that the impact and use case for ServerCD was diminished.
- Talk at the time of a CentOSPlus kernel based installed ( therefore
xfs etc support at install time, additional drivers, perhaps some more userland stuff too ) might be a good idea, but that never got traction so we felt that if no one really cared enough to talk about it, perhaps no one really wanted it - or people already have process's in place that worked around the issue.
Finally, it wasent going to be possible to get the exact same usage scenarios covered in a single CD for CentOS-5 as it was for CentOS-4. Perhaps if there is enough interest we can revisit this situation and reconsider the issues. But thats just what the reasons are why there isnt a CentOS-5 servercd at the moment. Nothing stops that situation from changing within reasonable grounds.
- KB
It would be nice if you could just have an install option on the regular CD1 like "linux minimal" that would be somewhat easier than the way you have to do a minimal install now. It just isn't that intuitive to me. If I remember correctly, you have to clear all the check boxes, specify to "select packages now", and clear some more check boxes. I don't know how easy that is to add to the anaconda installer.