Hi Karanbir, > Personally, I hate images. Provisioning from fresh is easy enough, fast > enough and manageable enough that images are almost always either the > wrong solution or a by-product requirement from a third party tool that > does not understand provisioning ( hello, all those so-called-cloud > solutions .. ) well, there IS at least one valid scenario, where you want to deploy an image in an environment not supported by anaconda/kickstart. A prime example is the ALIX mainboard series, where the boards usually come with soldered 128 or 256 MB RAM, CF Flash Reader and a AMD GeoDE processor. I had fun rebuilding anaconda once to even bootstrap those (AMD GeoDE is somehow falsely recognized as i586 by CentOS 5.7), just to find out I had to add an additional USB key for swap to even get it to install. ( see http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2552 for details ) There are ready-made CentOS images for these type of boards available on the net (ssh keys removed ;-) ) and these actually allow for an easy provisioning of the CF cards. Sadly CentOS6 does not even support the processor any more. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Thomas Göttgens mailto:tgoettgens@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
