hi, this weekend I've tried to install F13 for a virtualised server I had some troubles to figure out how to use public IP address from within the virtual machine, but after that the installation went smoothly, and the result seems ok - well, mostly :) two things: 1) on the software selection screen, I have unchecked desktop and selected server ... but still I got the full GNOME desktop installed (not to mention all the i18n/IM and such stuff) - not exactly what you'd use for serving web pages and VCS repositories :-) (well, I didn't do manual package selection, just the generic groups) 2) the default partitioning scheme seems a bit strange to me ... I've used 100 GiB virtual disk, which got divided into two partitions - 499 MB /boot and the rest LVM the LVM partition was divided into 2 GB swap, 50 GB root and 49 GB /home I can't see what scenario does this division fit - for a desktop user, I bet a lot of space in /home would be preferred to store all the multimedia and such stuff - for a server, a lot of space in /var (i.e. under root) would be preferred to store all the stuff for www (/var/www), lots of intrusion attempts, err I mean access, logs (/var/log) etc. but the installer can hardly tell what is preferred ... why to choose a "solution" that is only half-good = half-bad in both cases? ... I bet there must have been a lot of discussion about going with just root versus separate /home, and how much space to allocate, could someone point me to some summary why such a solution was chosen? this is no big deal, as it is easy to make custom partition scheme, I'm just curious - the default simply does seem a good compromise to me, it does not fit the most common scenario (I bet most people use Fedora on desktop?), why not to make it better, is there a reason why to do it this way that stays hidden for me? K. p.s. qemu complains about missing smp support in kvm, can anyone point me to a solution? - so far I've found just some old bugreports for it ... -- Karel Volný QE BaseOs/Daemons Team Red Hat Czech, Brno tel. +420 532294274 (RH: +420 532294111 ext. 8262074) xmpp kavol@xxxxxxxxx :: "Never attribute to malice what can :: easily be explained by stupidity."
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