On Tuesday 26 August 2003 11:11, Eli Billauer wrote:
> As I mentioned, I'm not talking about adding an rpm or two, but making a
> single computer work really nice, and then duplicate it.
Basically, that is what all installation kits are striving for!
The problem is that "image" install is almost never good:
1. Different hardware (e.g: configuring X11)
2. Different partitioning. I've read your post and know that you
talked about manual partitioning, but this is one of the things
that the installer has to do per-computer!
3. A complication of (2.) is that the typical installee, already has
a "sacred" windows install -- Need to partition for him, then
edit his fstab to mount the win* partition. Most installers already
have facilities for this.
BTW: The best solution I've seen so far in the industry to the problem of
"redployable-image" is the HPUX install system. You can create a
"golden-image" of a working system (therebye assuring all dependencies
are good). However, during later install, you may install it on different
hardware (with some limitations), totaly change partitioning, host,
timezone etc. (golden-image installs are of course much faster than
normal installs and by default require no human intervention).
What is possible I think is:
1. Place an NFS/HTTP/FTP install trees so people who have network
cards can install through the network and don't wait for CD's.
(This is in *addition* for the normal CD method!)
2. Place on the same server a set of RPMS/SRPMS for Israeli/Hebrew
software. E.g: latest culmus, fribidi, bidiv, hspell, etc.
This should be done/checked against the chosen distro.
Last, but not least: What is the chosen distro? I failed to reach the meeting
but would like to help if I can.
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