On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:22 +0100, Karel Volný wrote: > 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) What shows up in %packages in your /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file? > 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? Unfortunately, I don't think the default partitioning scheme will ever work for everyone. Thanks, James
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