On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 09:48 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> A live CD install on servers? You're walking all over your
use cases :)
Does the live CD install istelf have a prominent advisory "Avoid using
LiveCD for these cases [see http://... for explanation]" ?
There are multiple versions of the LiveCDs, but you don't mention which
one you used. The one specifically targetted at servers doesn't run
NetworkManager by default IIRC.
This may be fallout from "Fedora Project does not distribute CD
images."
Physical media are comforting to administrators (changing the bits is
easy to detect and prevent), many servers lack DVD, creating a local repo
can be a hassle, install from network drive is not widely understood
(and when it doesn't work it is hard to figure out how to fix.)
A CD and a network is all that's needed to install servers, without the
need to setup a staging network with tftp boot. I'm pretty sure that's
all explained in the Installation Guide.