On 14/09/2007, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote: > Clay Baenziger wrote: > > So, my thought was if the live CD has NFS, TFTP, DHCP (instead of > > bootp - since a DHCP server can serve bootp requests), and > > whatever serves bootparams then one could use the live CD as an ad hoc > > JumpStart server pretty easily and for someone in say the Try & Buy > > program without a DVD drive, ad hoc is their key requirement. Similarly, > > from a sys. admin. perspective being able to provide a quick JumpStart > > server can be helpful too. > > > > Feels kind of awkward to be arguing against including the DHCP server I > spent so many years working on ;-) Nevertheless, while I agree there's > likely a demand for a Jumpstart server appliance, I'm skeptical that our > default, desktop-oriented live CD is really suited so well for that role > at this point - there's too much other stuff you need to set up. I'd > think a pre-canned VM or DVD with everything included would be a more > attractive solution.
I tend to believe that the distro constructor is going to be the answer to many of these special cases. I think the most common scenarios should be catered for to minimise the download size and maintenance costs and then we can empower individuals through the distro constructor to create what they need for special cases like this. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
