On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:10 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
While I'm not disagreeing, why not create "single CD install media" with an option (in the isolinux.cfg menu) to have the minimum (working) set of packages be installed, and the rest of the installation menu interactive (partitioning, root password)?
Bearing in mind that the Fedora Project already releases CDs, and that I've fixed package ordering, the simplest win would be to add the menu entry to the isolinux.cfg, and include one kickstart file on the disk with just a %packages section.
A user would still be able to run the normal installation procedure, or supply a different kickstart on the cmdline (including the %packages kickstart on the cdrom?) for full automation.
Just a thought Fedora Unity has been pondering on, at popular demand. I'm as far as getting Revisor into shape to do the job.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip
Jeroen,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but do you mean by this that, effectively, there'd be a kind of menu that would allow, more or less, different "spins" or flavors of Fedora to be installed from the same installation media by default?
If so, I find that idea really fascinating, given that enough packages are able to fit on one CD to support more than one installation.
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