* Olivier Galibert | | Keep cranking up the pain, guys, and fedora will definitively makes | its place in the "master of none" category. | | It's kinda sad that people who do such a good job upstream end up | building such a crappier-over-time distribution from it. Hi Olivier, imho Fedora 8 is most easy Fedora to install and customize, however you *have* to work with the tools, not against them. Using DVD install and $ yum install \* are not to working with the tools. Why is Fedora 8 install easy? * lots to packages (almost all "normal" pkgs are included) * easy to create homemade repos (createrepo) * very simple to create custom comps.xml (createrepo -g) * support for additional repos in kickstart (url keyword) - can add updates, freshrpms and custom repo during install * much faster depsolver code (thansk yum people!) * very good hardware auto detection Old, however very nice features: * http support in kickstart, this is a killer! [1] What could be better? * bug free installer :-) * installable Everything spin (without isos, will be fixed in F-9, I hope) - Terje [1]: Combine apache with mod_rewrite with e.g. php to create kickstart files *on the fly*: Boot host with boot.iso (or from grub) go to text modus and write: linux ks=http://webserver/ks/<hostname> This URL is a redirect to http://webserver/ks/ks.php?hostname=<hostname> the php script has all needed information about <hostname>: network settings, auth info, passwd, packages, additional repos etc. Now add cfengine or similar to do post install configuration you should be set. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
