Fedora Server Spin

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 19:05:41 UTC 2007


On 1/12/07, David Lutterkort <dlutter at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
>

How about we get an idea oh how much media space a "only essential"
spin takes, and work from there to vote on additional packages up to
the 650MB mark.

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