> > Why are you going for fedora.. is there any particular reason (in our > college we are having ubuntu,if fedora is better for any reason i can > suggest them to use it), >
Since, many colleges don't have DVD drives in the computers, the only way for us to setup a FOSS lab is through PXE based network installation simultaneously without depending on optical disk/drives and for this we use customized fedora installation combining Fedora Everything + rpmfusion repository (including all multimedia softwares / codecs etc). If anyone could help me to create a similar one for Ubuntu based Kickstart installation, then we can do for Ubuntu also. > What's meant by kickstart method, > http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch25_:_Network-Based_Linux_Installation http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/ch-kickstart2.html Four thousand two hundred and twenty five!!! can you tell just a note > what are those packages. > http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/ks-f13.cfg-4225 Almost everything equivalent to proprietary kind of softwares. The installation time was about 1:45 hrs on a C2D with 2GB RAM and complete installation takes about 15GB space totally (usually we setup a 60 seat FOSS lab in less than 5 hrs using our FOSS Setup / Deployment Kit) Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems P.S: We have already started setting up FOSS labs for engg. colleges in the coimbatore region. If any college require a FOSS lab setup, they can send a request mail to us and we will setup the lab ASAP. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
