On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:34 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In general I'm usually taking about standalones, but VMs are a great > example of where this is useful. Unfortunately VMs tend to be a good place > for using kickstarts. Actually I take that back. Since with a Virtual I > can install and copy, not having to do a kickstart is very useful there as > well. Thats what I don't understand. Why is there a perception that > having a clean and small base server install from the leading Enterprise > Linux vendor without a custom installation process via kickstart is such a > bad concept? >
I think it has to do with percentages. 60% of all system admins do not want to sit through a long graphical install just to have to sit through it again because they biffed a screen somewhere. Having to sit in a server room and do a click through at 2am in the morning when I can just have the box pxe boot or use EdBrown's kickstart collection means more time that I have to fix other problems and less likely I will say that this system is 1.2 gigs in / when I mean 12gb. So it becomes what fits the use case for most people. The ones who want to do a graphical install are usually going to be adding stuff that isnt in a default or trying to figure out what size / should be. I know that on the CentOS side, its another chain that has to be qa'd and tested every time there is a new spin or update... and they only do a cursory run through. The RHEL side has a long set of tests for every platform. So every combination adds more tests. Anything outside of what is a solution for 60% gets cut out to lower costs and make more time for other items that aren't being tested as well as customers want. > I'm done for now.. this is a tired discussion and I've yet to get hear a > reasonable justification for whats wrong with wanting clean and small > without a kickstart. And I'm sure i'm just being an annoyance at this > point. My apologies. > > -greg > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
