can't install base system using CD 1

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 04:43 -0500, Leam Hall wrote:
> Agreed, the "Base Install" is still pretty bloated, http installs assume
> your network driver is on the install CD, and the other methods assume
> you have a pre-existing infrastructure. 
> 
> Since we used to install from floppies, I bet we can get back to a lean
> "Base" that allows a high level of user customization based on what they
> plan on doing with the computer.

The use of "Base" here is overloaded.  There are two important groups in
Fedora installs, there is the Core group, which is not visible to end
users, and there is the Base group, which is.  Core group gives you a
system that will boot a kernel and run init scripts and provide you a
login shell.  The base group adds to that functionality such as
obtaining a DHCP address, installing more packages via yum, and so on.
If you deselect every group from the installer UI, including the Base
group, you are given a "minimal" install of just the core group, and as
of last testing (the F10 release) it only requires the first CD of a
split CD set.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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