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 : > > 1) 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' > > 2) ServerCD 4 to ServerCD(!) 5 upgrades required a ServerCD5 that was > almost 900MB in size. > > 3) 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. > > 4) 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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20081103/fac86100/attachment-0007.sig>