On 9 Jul 2005, at 14:53, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 02:43:08PM +0100, Oisin Mulvihill wrote:
I'm trying to reduce the number of disks I need to use, to install a
set of internet kiosks I have developed based on fedora. Currently
I have my own kickstart file on a special fedora core one disk. It
then chooses the packages I need off disks one to three. I then have a
fourth disk that installs my software and turns the pc into a kiosk.
I'm moving to fedora core three and now the amount of disks I need is
up to five. I want to reduce the amount of disks down to two if
possible.
Have you considered setting up a network mirror and reducing the CD
need
down to the 5mb boot image? Since it's an internet kiosk, I assume you
have
network connectivity. This'd save you a lot of the work it looks like
you're
doing.
When my main customer installs the kiosks, they don't connect to a
network
usually (despite what my documentation says). They usually just connect
them
to the adsl router they'll get deployed with, but its not connected
out. When
they put the machines out on site they just want to plug-in-and-go.
They are
also not very technical. Even though my install does 99% of the work
for them,
the still manage to get it wrong. I thought about this solution, but
went
against it as it would cause me a lot of head aches and support calls.
om
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