Redhat Lite

Jack Bowling jbinpg at shaw.ca
Fri Sep 19 21:07:57 UTC 2003


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:35:32PM +0200, Maynard Kuona wrote:
> I think it would be nice to have something like Redhat Lite. Something
> like Morphix, or Knoppix, but Redhat based, like Adios(Adios is
> basically a Redhat 8 Live CD). It would be nice to have a GUI rescue
> tool, which doubles as your installation CD. I think it is pretty
> simple, just have the CD have a nice, quite minimal install (That means
> leaving out stuff like Apache, One desktop enivronment (Although Adios
> has two, GNOME and KDE on one disk) Installation could then proceed by
> just copying the image to HD, and then detecting and setting up
> hardware, something Redhat does quite well. I have absolutely no idea
> how much effort this could take though, but then Linux installations
> would then have far surpassed Windows.

It's been done. Popped up on freshmeat.net a few nights ago. Do a site
search there for something like "rescue CD Redhat" since I can't remember
the name of the project.

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Jack Bowling
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