Fedora Core 2 wishlists

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Dec 8 20:53:05 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:29, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Note that Red Hat hasn't even shipped a kernel that supported that
> > box for multiple releases (since 7.3). I'm not sure that scaling
> > back the requirements that much is something that fits the model
> > of always moving forward with new technology.
> 
> It sounds to me like a job for an alternatives installer (like miniconda
> or maybe some mini yum based installer)
> 

yum needs to be lighter-weight in the install phase - something I'm
working on.

you should look at 'cinch' a floppy-based installer being written for
the caosity project. it uses yum for installs, too.

-sv






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