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

[Jeff]

On 27 Aug 2008, at 10:21 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Jeff <jeff at wildcoast.com> 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 deployment sites to run off and download, oh for  
example, Java, GCC, and a bunch of other essential tools, whereas the  
install distro should include them as a matter of course.

So I'm asking again: why a single CD? This isn't Ubuntu shipping off  
a million copies of the latest distro for free, so why the self- 
imposed minimalist constraint?

> about 30 to 50% of the stuff that pungi
> puts there is not needed. I'm trying to shed it so we can fit more
> stuff we care about - content as you point out.

As you say, the graphical installer, X, and a lot of other goodness  
is taking up space.

A minimalist install /option/ is a Good Thing, but take the very  
recent XO deployment at Kliptown for example: because of a shortage  
of PCs they have already turned the XS into a workstation.

Same thing we do with the servers in our computer labs.

Please consider this a bit more carefully.

> Excellent. Welcome to the list!

TYVM.

Before I bark up the wrong tree, can someone please point me at the  
server plan/roadmap?

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