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[Jef Spaleta]

Maynard Kuona:
> It would be nice to have a GUI rescue
> tool, which doubles as your installation CD

It would be nice....and if I do a little mailinglist thread
stitching...I would say the idea to make the 1st CD a more gui(some
would say more functional) rescue mode, works well with the previous
idea some people in this community had about making the 'minimal'
install more minimal.

If we can come up with a smaller minimal install, we can have a 1st Cd
that has more room for a rescue mode...and still be able to get a
minimal install done with one CD.

Too bad the thread about people's intent to rework the minimal install
groupings dried up. Did anyone ever come back to this list with a
finished reworked comps file for the community to test?  I don't want to
name names (mostly becuase that would require datamining the thread
archive and i don't care that much) but it would be nice if people who
said they wanted to play with the comps file to make the minimal install
better actually reported back with a testable/discussable file.


>I have absolutely no idea
>how much effort this could take though,

As it stands...i would say this sort of thing that takes just enough
effort for Red Hat not to assign employee time to, given the other
priorities that need to be worked on. This sort of things is exactly the
thing technically inclined community volunteers could work on as a sort
of aside and get polished up with less direct involvement of Red Hat
paid for development manhours. 

-jef"pretty sure Red Hat is still taking patches about 'minimal'
install...and i'm still sure there are people on this list who'd love to
play with community hacked up alternative install iso images to test
rescue mode and minimal install options"spaleta
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