Shtt!!

[John Summerfield]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 02 2008, Seth Vidal said:
>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 06:20 -0600, David Hagood wrote:
>>>> I've noticed that there is a Zeroconf service description for apt
>>>> servers. Perhaps a similar definition should be made for Fedora, such
>>>> that the network install can search for local install servers via
>>>> Zeroconf.
>>> It's come up from time to time and there are even a couple of partial
>>> implementations.  The key is to work on it and really get it integrated
>>> into yum; we're not going to invent something that's used only for
>>> anaconda
>> there was a plugin for that someone wrote. I think I'd be more enamored 
>> of the idea if someone could give me a couple of good examples of where 
>> avahi was used for something that was needed to be up for any amount of time 
>> and wasn't just ad-hoc and 'hopeful'.
> 
> Part of it, though, is that one of the points is for more ad-hoc things.
> It would be helpful for the person who keeps a local mirror using
> something like reposync and doesn't have any sort of static, public IP
> address.  Then instead of using the mirror returned by MirrorManager,
> you'd get the very very local mirror.  Also, it's nice for things like
> an installfest where you might not even have a public network
> connection[1].

If I were hosting an installfest, I'd set up a server running Fedora or 
CentOS (or equivalent) on a laptop, set up PXE for those who can network 
boot, hand out CDs for those who cannot.

It's close to what I wanted to do yesterday, a mass-install of Linux on 
computers being given away.

Fedora was my second choice, they ended up with opensuse. Time was short.

Cheers
John

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