tor 2005-02-24 klockan 22:52 +0100 skrev Nicolas Mailhot: >BTW on the whole slimming process : > >I do think more will be achieved by making network installations more >convenient than putting a hard limit on the disk number. After all even >if a floppy FC was possible today no one would go through the hassle of >feeding hundreds of disks in the reader to make use of it. > >Just have the network install kick ass (a one-stage install from the >first CD not like I heard minimal install then boot then yum then >whatever) and no one will care the about number of isos anymore (because >mags will only ship the first CD and people with no network connectivity >will the the last to complain FC isos are numerous enough they won't >miss anything once they burnt them). > >If you can do full livecds now it's certainly possible to pack a smart >network installer on a single disk right ? The biggest hassle when doing a network install is having to type in an ftp/http URL manually. Having a central mirror list accessible by XML-RPC or similar, with a failsafe list on the CD and the possibility to supply it manually would greatly simplify network installs. Ideally, one would select location/timezone first, then get a sane mirror suggestion based on geographical proximity. I guess probing the subnet for NFS/SMB servers (and ftp/http for that matter) would be nice too :-) /Peter Backlund
