On Sat, September 6, 2014 1:57 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/6/2014 11:06 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Luckily, there is nice equivalent of what you would like standard >> Desktop >> installation would be, or anything else which you can tweak to your >> needs >> once and then install that tweaked system with one go on as many boxes >> as >> you wish. It is called "kickstart". Even better: RedHat (and CentOS) >> have >> more or less preconfigured set of stuff to install (minimal, Desktop, >> server, Development workstation,...) you can just use one of them in >> graphic installer and voila, you will have it installed with minimal >> brain >> effort. > > and my experience is, kickstart installs off a reasonably fast NFS > server over gigE are /way/ faster than CDROM/DVDROM installs. > Exactly. Moreover, this gives you nice incentive to maintain mirror in your server room, I personally don't mind ours to be official public one (and I do not shape traffic ;-) Valeri > > > -- > john r pierce 37N 122W > somewhere on the middle of the left coast > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++