Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: It is not clear to me how the anaconda team will support installs on embedded systems over serial port. And I have to keep that in mind for some of the HW options we have for the XS. Wouldn't a vnc

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-09-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: It is not clear to me how the anaconda team will support installs on embedded systems over serial port. And I have to keep that in mind for some of the HW options we have for the

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, yes, I was confusing what gets installed on the install disc with what gets installed on the server! So as far as the stuff installed on the server goes, is GNOME or X even needed? X, Gnome, gtk, all things we could

[Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
Playing with a minimal Pungi kickstart file I get an install CD of about 500MB. If I add the xs-pkgs dependencies, things balloon to 759MB, no longer fitting in a CD. My guess is that a good 1/3 of that is related to the graphical installer and related dependencies which we don't want on the

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-27 Thread Jeff
Hi all, I'm new to the list and have just been lurking around for the past week, so excuse me, but: On 27 Aug 2008, at 9:41 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: It's not a complete deal breaker, but I prefer to distribute images that are small, and ideally fit on 1 CD. Why? What's wrong with writing

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-27 Thread Jeff
On 27 Aug 2008, at 10:21 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? What's wrong with writing the image to a DVD? Don't worry about the CD :-) But I do. I'm worried that you may be applying first world standards and expect the

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Martin Langhoff wrote: Playing with a minimal Pungi kickstart file I get an install CD of about 500MB. If I add the xs-pkgs dependencies, things balloon to 759MB, no longer fitting in a CD. My guess is that a good 1/3 of that is related to the graphical installer and related dependencies which

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: Playing with a minimal Pungi kickstart file I get an install CD of about 500MB. If I add the xs-pkgs dependencies, things balloon to 759MB, no longer fitting in a CD. My guess is that a good 1/3 of that is related to the graphical installer and related dependencies which

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-08-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/8/28 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But I do. I'm worried that you may be applying first world standards Don't let knee-jerk reactions dominate :-) I am on a very slow int'l connection. I expect most pilot site and several XS volunteers to be on similarly slow int'l connections. Small images are