F8 is getting *really* sysadmin-hostile

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 18:59:20 UTC 2007


Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:48:33AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
>>> A live CD install on servers? You're walking all over your use cases :)
>> Does the live CD install istelf have a prominent advisory "Avoid using
>> LiveCD for these cases [see http://... for explanation]" ?
>>
>> This may be fallout from "Fedora Project does not distribute CD images."
>> Physical media are comforting to administrators (changing the bits is
>> easy to detect and prevent), many servers lack DVD, creating a local repo
>> can be a hassle, install from network drive is not widely understood
>> (and when it doesn't work it is hard to figure out how to fix.)
> 
> Actually it was a fallout of "the livecd fits and boots from my 2G usb
> key, the dvd doesn't".  I didn't realize the livecd was supposed to be
> laptop-only.
> 
> Creating a local repo with any local changes requires having a machine
> with f8 installed already so that you can run createrepo.

Did anyone establish whether or not you can do an NFS install by 
pointing at a directory containing the dvd iso image like you used to be 
able to do with the set of cd images?  I thought I saw a message saying 
that no longer worked, which sounds pretty sysadmin-hostile too.  What's 
the right way to download one copy somewhere and install several 
machines from that image?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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