FC5T2 ready for even a test release?

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:54 +0000, Tony Molloy wrote:
> We have to install Fedora onto several hundred machines twice a year for 
> our student labs. Now what we normally do is "An Everything Install". 
> Then we download a script from a server and run it on each machine. This 
> script installs any extra rpms we need, like java, configures the 
> machines to our requirements and disables any unwanted services etc. 
> Fairly simple.
> 
> Now without "An Everything Install" we install the default packages. This 
> will not install many packages from the base repository, for instance the 
> openoffice language packs or the xorg fonts. We need these because some 
> of our students will want to use their native language for some purposes. 
> Also some lecturer will always require some package that's not in the 
> default install but that he has on his machine. And in general they won't 
> tell you about this untill after the semester has started ;-( 

This problem is easily solved by writing a kickstart script with your
required package set.  Is it really that hard to identify what you need?

If you're complaining about /var/cache space, what do you think will
happen over time with all the updates for all those unnecessary packages
you've installed with everything?

-- 
Jesse Keating RHCE      (geek.j2solutions.net)
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