2 hours ?!?!?!?!?!? What are you installing ? Windows XP on a PII ? Are you installing "Everything" from the Fedora distro ?
We Kickstart RHEL constantly in about 10min over the network on P4 2.4, and that includes connecting the wires, editing the ks.cfg file and waiting for POST. No joke. Admittedly, they are minimal installations and it takes another couple minutes to get them on the RHN and patched.
We use a FTP server for the packages and only use disk 1 to boot and a floppy for the ks.cfg Se did the network install mainly to avoid having to change disks during install and because we ended up making ten dozen sets of the CD's as one disk always seemed to disappear.
Is 2 hours because you are installing "Everything" and patching it all afterwards ?
At 08:41 PM 8/31/2005 -0700, you wrote:
I can do a Kickstart install of Fedora in around 2 hours. I'm wondering if there is a faster way to give a new PC a working Fedora Linux OS. I know about Knoppix but it is slow (no swap) and not the same. 2 ideas Xen....How about letting people just run a virtual Fedora PC on server? LTSP....Don't know anything about this. Is it as good or better than a Xen virtual Fedora PC? Any better ideas? Chris -- _______________________________________ Christian Seberino, Ph.D. SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax : (619) 553-6521 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
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