Fedora Education Spin

sebastian at when.com sebastian at when.com
Sun Jan 27 21:13:12 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Would it be possible to build a 1-CD base install that would then give 
> you the option of doing a 'yum groupinstall some_big_set' if you have 
> a good internet connection, or installing that set from a separate CD 
> that does not have any of the base system on it?  That way you don't 
> have to respin a bazillion copies of the base system just to get some 
> slightly customized variations, and people with decent internet 
> connections don't have to download and install images that will always 
> be out of date anyway.  If you don't want to bother setting up the 
> infrastructure for yum groupinstall, just provide a script that puts 
> the whole list on the yum command line - or make a metapackage with 
> all the others as dependencies.

Yep... I think this would be a nice solution for the problem. I am going 
prepare such a build and post the results here...

Sebastian




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