How many discs

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sat Dec 9 18:19:05 UTC 2006


On 09/12/06, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
> It probably wouldn't be that hard to craft a minimal single install cd
> for Fedora that creates a basic system with networking.  The real
> installer then runs after the initial install and allows the user to
> pick and choose packages that get installed from remote repositories
> using yum.  The initial Fedora install cd already has the i386 kernel
> and enough of X to support a graphical install so it could even be fully
> "graphical."
>
> This would be a nice option for people who have a fast network
> connection.  Integrate it with PXE and kickstart and a business or
> school could rapidly install to lots of systems.  Also, it would
> probably get more people to consider "passing around" Fedora.

I remember this being discussed back in FC3. All that's been done is
that a disc has been _added_ to the distro.

Dotan Cohen

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