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 > > > > > >-- > >_______________________________________ > > > >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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