installation via internet

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Mar 25 23:15:51 UTC 2007


Andras Simon wrote:
> On 3/26/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Andras Simon wrote:
>> > On 3/25/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I disagree. Since I have broadband I find it faster to do a minimal
>> >> install, reboot, and complete a full install over the net. Fewer
>> >> packages need to be installed twice that way.
>> >
>> > Is there a "minimal install" option in anaconda (or better, a smallish
>> > install cd, like the one here http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ for
>> > debian)? I don't remember seeing one. It's almost a year since I've
>> > done the last install (FC5) and I  may have forgotten, but I'm pretty
>> > sure I would've chosen that (and installed individual packages later
>> > when needed) if I saw it.
>>
>> There has always been a network installation method in Fedora and steps
>> were given even earlier in the thread.
> 
> Yes, I know about the network installation method. But that's not the
> same as a "minimal install", where you get a fully functioning (but
> very Spartan) system safely installed from a CD, and then you can
> start yumming the extra packages as needed.

That would be trivial to create with either Pungi or Pilgrim

https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/pungi
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD.

I am looking at creating a somewhat minimal one myself as a live cd. 
Will post later as I have something to experiment with.

Rahul




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