On 11/27/2010 11:45 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 11/26/10 12:30 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> On 11/26/2010 05:06 PM, Jean-Marc Liger wrote: >>> Something which focus on what was the CentOS 4 Server CD is a good target. >>> We could base it on some current Group Install Options like "CentOS// >>> Server (GUI)". >> >> Thats possible, but we should try and consider what the install package >> sets are on the upstream product and see if its possible to match that >> in some way. >> >> w.r.t ServerCD-4, i just went with the most common server packages ( as >> measured by download numbers on mirror.c.o ); that worked as an >> additional install media, over and above the main distro CD/DVD set, but >> if we are going to have something like this for our main install media I >> feel trying to get close to the upstream product might be a good idea. >> >> what do you think ? > > I think it would be great to have a minimal CD/USB install image that would get > you to a point where you can run yum after the reboot. Whether enough server > packages fit to be useful without having yum install more packages is somewhat > irrelevant if we assume that you need enough internet connectivity to do updates > anyway. The idea would be to have a super-fast install that doesn't need a DVD If you want fast, nothing beats a LiveCD/USB, particularly the way fedora's livecd-tools does it (dd fs copy, with my convoluted dm optimization). If you want super-fast, throw a rebootless installer (zyx-liveinstaller) on top of that. Oops, I just willfully spammed the list. It just seemed relevent to the thread however. And also a good place to add the forgotten caveat to my last post about procedure, i.e. I do have an obvious ulterior motive in wanting to see round1 packages ASAP, so that I can start playing around with centos6 based livecd/usbs. -dmc > drive and gets you to a point where you can debug hardware/network problems, add > some drivers, etc. in difficult cases and (unlike a network install) lets you > continue after failures. And it would make it quick and easy for off-site > people to get a machine to the point where you could ssh in to run the rest of > the 'yum install', etc. commands to customize it. >