X, GNOME *and* KDE in under 10 min?  

Chris

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 08:30, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
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