Tony Molloy <tony.molloy@xxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 20 January 2006 14:52, Justin Conover wrote: > > On 1/19/06, Richard Hally <rhally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > What I find funny in all of this, is people are complaining about > > "everything" option and in the same e-mail talking about "to much > > bloat" seems a tad odd. > For most users I agree that the everything install causes more problems > than it's worth. But in my case and several others it's very useful. > We have to install Fedora onto several hundred machines twice a year for > our student labs. Now what we normally do is "An Everything Install". > Then we download a script from a server and run it on each machine. This > script installs any extra rpms we need, like java, configures the > machines to our requirements and disables any unwanted services etc. > Fairly simple. Use kickstart, that way you can even tweak configurations and pull in local packages during/after install. And a student lab machine running everything under the sun isn't too wise anyway: more software ==> more places into which they can apply the prying iron... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list