Fedora Server Spin

[David Lutterkort]

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:27 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 1/12/07, David Lutterkort <dlutter at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 10:34 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > The thing we are missing is some sort of agreement on what the server
> > spin should be: I think everybody agrees that the minimal install you
> > describe should be possible. The question is: what does the admin do
> > afterwards ? If they install whatever they need over the newtwork why
> > bother with a server spin to begin with ? We can just fiddle with @core
> > a little and give them a kickstart file that produces the minimal
> > install.
> 
> Whats the difference between a minimal install and the 'single cd' spin?

I would hope that a minimal install leaves some room on a single cd to
be filled with useful things, e.g. things that aren't strictly in a
minimal install but commonly used like cron or an smtp daemon.

> > But what about a customized comps file ? Is that desirable for a server
> > spin ? Absolutely; and to arrive at that we do need to talk about
> > including TurboGears and lots of other packages that people use on their
> > servers.
> >
> 
> We'll never appeal to everyone with the Server CD but we could stick
> some common tools on there as we need.  Honestly though I think the
> 'single' CD is really what most of the server guys are looking for
> anyway.

What exactly is the use case here ? How is this single CD install much
better than a boot CD that kicks you into a networked install ?

What common tools do you envision for the server spin ? It sounds like
this would be more a system rescue CD.

David