Re: minimal install too minimal

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On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 14:47 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 March 2010 02:41:02 pm Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > Seems rather dumb for ethernet networking to be configured prior to
> > > installation (via cmdline), and installation performed over ethernet, and
> > > then have network not up by default on first boot, quite in contrast to
> > > installation via OM or HD, which may never need any networking. 
> > 
> > OM or HD installs also don't enable the network by default, the user
> > will have to take some action to turn the network on in those cases.
> > 
> > The minimal case is "special" because it is lacking in a number of
> > packages, such as the NetworkManager stack, which is Fedora's preferred
> > method of managing the network.
> 
> It was not the intent of the minimal platform install project to have a non-
> functioning network. It used to work, so this would be a regression.
> 
> -Steve

"this used to work" define this.  There hasn't been a "minimal" install
option for a very long time, and since it has come back, when not doing
an network install, the above result has always been the result, so this
isn't a "regression".  You asked for minimal, you got minimal.  Have fun
with it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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