On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 11:39 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: > On Tuesday 09 May 2006 07:05, Craig White wrote: > > > ---- > > That can be the only resolution in bugzilla but that shouldn't deter > > anyone nor should anyone conclude that it isn't useful to open a new > > bugzilla entry. > > > > It is the one and only meaningful way to provide feedback by the users > > to the developers. > > > > My estimate was that there were about 10 people who wanted the 'install > > everything' option in anaconda. According to a quick perusal of the > > above links, there were less than 10. > > Doubt that. This is the fourth time this discussion has come up on this > list in the past few months. Each time it has generated more e-mails than > any other topic. It was bugzilled and closed as not a bug. Probably right > as it's not really a bug it's a usability feature. > > I did an install yesterday and it took the entire day to get the > "everything install". Do the base install selecting as little as > possible, configure the yum repos, do the everything install, do the > updates. I'm thinking of a few months time when I have to install 200+ > machines. And I need the everything install because I can't tell a > student what environment, Gnome or KDE, to use what browser, mailer etc > to use. > > It was a useful feature. ---- you really need to learn about kickstart. It is a way to automate installations making it a breeze to install on more than one computer and ***install everything*** option Craig
