[Fedora-spins] Server spin

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 16 04:22:42 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 20:54 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 20:34 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > > > Do you think it's appropriate to keep it this way or should I change it?
> > > > The reason why I do it this way is, that pungi doesn't pull optional 
> > > > comps packages in the media kit. Any idea how to work this around 
> > > > without having an extra script?
> > > 
> > > To date, all spins have been either live media, or a virt image that is
> > > quite similar.  However you mention using pungi, which means you're
> > > making a more traditional install media, as opposed to live media.
> > > Basically you're just adjusting what packages are or are not on the DVD
> > > media we generate as part of a Fedora release?
> > 
> > ... I'm confused why you'd do this as well. How many people install their
> > servers from *media*? (That being said, it would be interesting to
> > benchmark an image-based installation of @core, but given that anaconda
> > won't run on that...)
> 
> I always install my own servers from "media". Often it's an ISO given to
> a VM, but it is always from an ISO. Never a pre-packaged image, etc.
> 

No - I think he meant a network install.

-sv




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