On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 10:09:11AM -0700, David G. Miller wrote: > It probably wouldn't be that hard to craft a minimal single install cd > for Fedora that creates a basic system with networking. The real > installer then runs after the initial install and allows the user to > pick and choose packages that get installed from remote repositories > using yum. The initial Fedora install cd already has the i386 kernel > and enough of X to support a graphical install so it could even be fully > "graphical." You can download the 8mb 6/i386/os/images/boot.iso and burn that to a credit-card-sized CD, boot from that, and do an entirely network-based install, which downloads only the packages you select -- by far the most bandwidth-effective choice for a single install. > This would be a nice option for people who have a fast network > connection. Integrate it with PXE and kickstart and a business or > school could rapidly install to lots of systems. Also, it would > probably get more people to consider "passing around" Fedora. Yes, this is what people do with kickstart. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
