Re: Smart packages

On Sunday 22 July 2007 12:21:15 pm Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:56:55 -0600,

Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
Thinking about Ferdora 7 and 8 it appears when 8 is made available
we will need to download another DVD full of software. I want to talk
about a better way. Why must a person building a server get 4.7 GB of
software when he wants just 750 MBytes of it?

There is no need to do. There is a network boot option with boot.iso
image and there are Live images, both GNOME and KDE spins for x86 is
around the size you want.

Rahul

As usual Rahul you didn't read what I wrote. You just throw out
things that have zero to do with concept.

Rahul seemed to provide reasonable suggestions for the problems you are
asking about. Doing a network install solves the issue of downloading
stuff you don't need. Fedora has Live CD versions that you were asking
about.

rahul outlines an excellent option. the network boot.iso is nice! i just
used it for the first time (for fedora 7) on several different servers. (why
didn't i think of that until now, rh9-fc1-fc6 could have been a lot quicker!)

the only thing i *wish* is that it would download things directly from
updates, and not the initial release version so you wouldn't have to do a yum
update immediately after a network install.

but it was way better than downloading tons of cds or an entire dvd for some
non-graphical server environs.

thanks fedorafolks for that network install option, by the way.

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