One of the goals of Indiana is also to be able to boot
and install from a mini cd rom image, that pulls
things from the network. I have been thinking that the
best option would be to include templates in the
installation procedure that could pull down different
packages sets depending on what kind of distro you
want. e.g - Indiana, minimum, Reference.
What do you guys thing?
-Brian
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Brian,
Oh, not bad as this is done by Debian installs. Yet,
think of the users that don't connect certain
workstations to the network or have high network
bandwidth.
I'd think the distro would at least be the core
functional OS without X or GUI related binaries.
Basically enough that an ISP or educational institute
to run UNIX commands (i.e. comparable to
FreeBSD-mini.iso). You can install this image on
128MB RAM computers and compile software using GCC or
a subset of Sun Studio 12 (CLI-based only).
Take a look at the FreeBSD-mini.iso which is a decent
example of a 'reference' distro.
Ken Mays
EarthLink, Inc.
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