On 2021.02.19 15:35, Diederik de Haas wrote:
I find it interesting that you felt the need to critique my suggestion.
I'm afraid you are misreading my point.
I'm trying to bring attention to the fact that maybe it is time to start
considering moving away from providing custom images to install Linux on
ARM servers, nothing more nothing less. I'm merely trying to bring
attention to an alternative that looks like the it's going to become the
main contender as time moves on (which of course, you are entitled to
disagree with, as it's obviously not possible for anyone to predict what
the future entails).
And I'm also starting from what OP explicitly stated ("install (...)
from a CD/DVD or USB Flash stick or uSDcard?") which, in the absolute,
would tend to hint that they want to go through a full installation
process rather than apply a flat image. But there again, I agree that,
without OP clarifying, this is open to interpretation.
As the provider of a custom image, I can understand why you would read
this like a critique, but I can assure you that it's as much a
"critique" as one would make of people developing a boot process aimed
purely at BIOS systems at the time where UEFI was still in the process
of being introduced, which of course did make a lot of sense and which
nobody would point the finger at, for choosing to invest resources in an
established process rather than one that is being introduced and not yet
widespread.
So please don't misconstrue an attempt to bring aweress to a new method
of installing systems to a critique of the old ones.
Regards,
/Pete
