FC5T2 ready for even a test release?
Horst von Brand
vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Fri Jan 20 23:29:24 UTC 2006
Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> wrote:
> On Friday 20 January 2006 14:52, Justin Conover wrote:
> > On 1/19/06, Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> > What I find funny in all of this, is people are complaining about
> > "everything" option and in the same e-mail talking about "to much
> > bloat" seems a tad odd.
> For most users I agree that the everything install causes more problems
> than it's worth. But in my case and several others it's very useful.
> We have to install Fedora onto several hundred machines twice a year for
> our student labs. Now what we normally do is "An Everything Install".
> Then we download a script from a server and run it on each machine. This
> script installs any extra rpms we need, like java, configures the
> machines to our requirements and disables any unwanted services etc.
> Fairly simple.
Use kickstart, that way you can even tweak configurations and pull in local
packages during/after install.
And a student lab machine running everything under the sun isn't too wise
anyway: more software ==> more places into which they can apply the prying
iron...
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