Am Samstag, 31. Mai 2003 00:50 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > In a general sense, would it be a good idea to provide mandrake install > > with a context during the installation? Stuff like (pc, laptop) (server, > > client) > > I don't think this is necessarily the rigth approach. The only machine I > have worked on with > 1GB ram is not a server, but a laptop ... so which > machine gets the enterprise kernel? The only real difference is enabling > acpi etc etc.
I thought yesterday about a thing like this. The context should not be detected automatically (this wouldn't work) , but installs for special purposes would be a good thing, I think. What I think of (examples): a router ----------- dhcpd + firewall + minimalistic installation + ?(mserver/linecontrol)? + ... would be a good thing to choose this installation i think of an installation like specialized distributions like esmith and others. soho-server ---------------- more things additional to the above, like ldap, samba, apache for intranet (??) and what else one could think of. multimedia-homeserver --------------------------------- dvr/mp3-box/dvd-player/streaming-server ( think of mythtv / vdr / GiantDisc / whatelse) -------- A big part of te above could be done from a package list like the autoinstall disk. It should be easy to deploy such a profile and maybe collecting/sharing of such profiles could be made possible. The problem is that some parts of the configuration should be done then automatically too and that can't be done with a thing like the autoinstallation disc. I don't know if this can at all be done, but it would be nice to be able to compete with some specialized ditributions (have a mandrake box installed for a special task, w/o the need of big work after installation) Just an idea I thought about yesterday Steffen
