On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >> I can see >> situations where a self-contained one-step install would be better. >> Maybe the minimal install build could look for a 2nd partition on the >> iso or a mounted usb for a continuation script. >> > > Yes, that is called a kickstart and anaconda is designed specifically to > allow you to pass one in .. either locally or on the web, etc. You > original install and be additive. I meant adding a standard place to look for the optional kickstart or post-install script to the stock minimal install. A person who would have trouble logging in and running a script after a base install would not find typing the kickstart command line much easier. > You can do whatever you want on YOUR OWN systems and call it whatever > you want. Anything you are smart enough to do. I thought that was the original context here. Someone needing a remote install of a customized system - by a person who shouldn't be making any of the choices the installer offers. > If you tried to redistribute that as CentOS (your clonezilla images, for > exampel), and say that it is official CentOS, well it is not. Official > CentOS is in the form that we release it, not some other form. > Especially not some other form where things are modified. > > You can't modify Ubuntu or Debian or OpenSUSE either, and then > distribute it and call it either of those things either. This is why > Linux Mint is not Ubuntu and Ubuntu is not Debian ... but Linux mint is > 'based on Ubuntu' and Ubyntu is 'based on Debain'. This is not rocket > science. Legalese is much worse than rocket science. Where does a VM image fit in this scheme? Can people build a VM image with an application installed for distribution and still identify the base system name? And if so, how/why is that different from any other copy? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com