minimal install too minimal

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Mar 17 18:41:02 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 14:36 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> Seems rather dumb for ethernet networking to be configured prior to
> installation (via cmdline), and installation performed over ethernet, and
> then have network not up by default on first boot, quite in contrast to
> installation via OM or HD, which may never need any networking. 

OM or HD installs also don't enable the network by default, the user
will have to take some action to turn the network on in those cases.

The minimal case is "special" because it is lacking in a number of
packages, such as the NetworkManager stack, which is Fedora's preferred
method of managing the network.

Now, there might be room for better translation of network params used
to start the install carrying over to pre-configured network
post-install, however not everybody will agree with that, think
installation specific networks and the like.

Bottom line, if you don't like it, file bugs and/or submit patches.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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