On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 10:01:02 AM MST Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 07:33:12PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Well, this definitely affects those using Fedora for enterprise
> > purposes. It's incredible how much businesses still rely on optical
> > media for these things.
>
> Again, you're projecting from an anecdote of one. My anecdote of one is
> that the vast majority of system in my company (around 400 employees
> IIRC) don't have an optical drive. I'm actually not sure if any of the
I think John is talking about rackmount hardware. But John, in this case,
aren't you booting from virtualized media via idrac (or whatever brand
equivalent), not literally a burned physical DVD?
In one of the environments that I support at $WORK, I wouldn't have an option
other than physical optical media. However, you are correct in that the
example I provided earlier was for iDRAC (or equivalent) optical drive
emulation. Several times, I have found images which would work with qemu's -
cdrom option, but not with an iDRAC's VirtualCD implementation, or in an
actual optical drive.
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John M. Harris, Jr.
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